Quotes About Contradiction

You're the one I love to love, hate to hate, love to hate and hate to love.

The king was pregnant.

If I didn't like her so much, I'd hate her.

I don't know how it is in mathematics, but in life the best proof for something lies in its opposite.

RUSSEL. When he grows up I want to be able to point to him and say: "There goes my son -- the man". I want to live in a masculine culture. BONGI. That's a contradiction in terms.

The lengths to which Bible believers will go to defend violent and contradictory passages – wedding themselves at times to outright foolishness – suggest that biblical literalism is rooted in fear.

no hay civilización que no entrañe un cierto número de actos bárbaros y no hay barbarie que no contenga algún germen de civilización.

Sens s? umbli tot pe contrasens e sensul meu de unic

There is an obvious disconnect between someone's claim to be relativist and his own moral judgments, including his judgment that people ought to be relativist.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

Looks like someone had a mood swing." She rolls her eyes. Like you don't want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he's probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

Finding beauty in the dissonance.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

It's lovely. I hate it.

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.

The best thing about London is Paris.