Quotes About Contradiction

the morally bipolar are too preoccupied with justifying their contradictory behaviors to learn to laugh at themselves, and I've noticed they laugh at other people more than with them.

Sometimes I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

I wish you and Dad had known him the way I did," she said wistfully. "He's such a contradiction. Rough and surly on the outside, but gentle and compassionate on the inside." "It sounds as though you're describing your father." She pondered her mother's words. "Nolan is a lot like Daddy. Principled and proud. Independent to a fault. I didn't realize that in the beginning, only later.

Who could help laughing at a group of people who heatedly declared that God was dead and clung to the belief that Elvis was alive?

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Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.

They started calling it The Rape, and it came to stand for everything: for coming together while falling apart; for loving each other and hating everybody else; for moving at breakneck speed while getting nowhere; for freezing in the streets and melting in the rooms of love.

The worst of us has good in him. The best of us has pure fucking evil in his heart. We battle. It's all we can do.

Not that Danny seemed intent on fucking it up, just that he was a man after all, and no one knew better than Luther himself how completely a man could step on his own dick when what he thought he wanted contradicted what he knew he needed. The

You see the worst in the best of people," she said, shaking her head, "and the best in the worst of people.

I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.

Grey had noticed this female paradox before: women who swooned at the notion of powerful men who would protect them at the same time liked nothing better than an open admission of helplessness on the part of any male within their sphere of influence.

accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.

But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?' He

all, is it not? But

But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox

He rounded on me, indignant and astonished. "Are you contradicting me?" "Well, yes," I said, rather mildly. "You're wrong.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

I am my best enemy.

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.