Quotes About Contradiction

Wait a minute,' I countered. 'Didn't you just tell me about all the strong women role models in your family, about how you were loud and have a big personality and didn't take shit?' 'I know,' she said. 'I think I didn't realize...' She paused, trying to reconcile the contradiction. 'I guess no one ever told me that the strong female image also applies to sex.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

You can't teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

Hypothesis: To burn and not consume. Hypothesis: To consume and not extinguish.

It's sick how you can be intimate with someone one minute and then be furious with that same person the next.

Margaret's throat had some swollen thing in it. Fog blurred everything but the charging red face. An unvoiced whimper shook her breast. She wanted to run to him as to a lover. She wanted to run from him as from a ravisher. She stood very still in her doorway, smiling demurely with dry, hot mouth.

looking at Spade with cobalt-blue eyes that were both shy and probing.

Well now you're contradicting yourself. With balance there cannot be chaos. With randomness there can be no punishment. You're pleading for punishment in hopes that you'll see your God. Without punishment there is no God. If there is balance then there is your Lord. If balance then afterlife.

He laughed, but he didn't smile.

Every time I think I've got you figured out you throw me a curve. - Veronica Knox

The world is upside down. Good is bad and bad is deified.