Quotes About Contradiction

Im probably in sky, flying with the fishes.. or maybe in ocean, swimming with the pigeons.

Hater, hater, hater I love you so much.

Fitzgerald said that the sign of genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of a genius?

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays.

I have found that it is not entirely safe, when one is misrepresented under his very nose, to allow the misrepresentation to go uncontradicted.

The natural order of things is artificial.

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

Real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness

They still want credit for being tolerant, without taking the rap for the fact that you only 'tolerate' what you can't stand.

It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Weaponry, trips to the sun country, tiny bathing suits, For Christmas. "Nothing says Peace on Earth like guns and string bikinis.

Wanting to die and dying are generally unrelated.

Good God. I don't believe St. Vincent and the word 'celibacy' have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

I don't have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.

I'd agree with you, except that agreeing with you probably means I'm on the wrong side of the argument." "-Cam Rohan

Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

Playful," Amanda repeated, shaking her head. The idea contradicted all her long-held ideas of romance and sex. One did not "play" in bed. What did he mean? Was he implying that sexual partners enjoyed jumping on the mattress and throwing pillows, as children did?

Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.

I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.