Quotes About Contradiction

Where Buddhist teachings contradict science, science should prevail,

Because the need to be loved and accepted runs so deep, we find ourselves doing things we never thought possible just to try to satisfy those desires. What starts off as a seemingly small compromise can easily become a complete contradiction to the people we long to be. We set things in motion that we never intended, all because we missed the miracle of His presence and promise in the midst of the mess.

I'm completely sane except when I'm the opposite of that.

Constant reminders that love is doubly edged with the most beautiful potential and the most dangerous pain.

Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

Mas eu só queria saber neste mundo misturado quem concorda consigo mesmo! Somos misturas incompletas, assustadoras incoerências, metades, três-quartos e quando muito nove-décimos.

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

The United States has had flawed presidents before; in fact, we have never had any other kind, but we have not had a chief executive in the modern era whose statements and actions are so at odds with democratic ideals.

Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

There had been a slight flavor of childishness in her outbursts, a little of petulance, but it was mostly a mature woman in that special area of pain reserved, in irony, for those who know how to give.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

Think of what it was they were applauding," he said at last. "My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.

Thus, in a Pageant Show, a Plot is made; And Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

It is a curious fact that each of these extreme opposites resembles the other. Each believes that we have only two choices: appeasement or war, suicide or surrender, humiliation or holocaust, to be either Red or dead. [Address at the University of Washington in Seattle, November 16 1961]

I'm not really sorry. But I'm not absolutely unsorry.

Besides, in such wells of loneliness is not any coming together closer to humanity than perversity?

She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking, ironing. Then, pass the next three or four Boheminanly on the floor in front of the fire, reading Lear, women's magazines, a detective story, Hemingway. Not all at the same time, but bits of all in the same afternoon. She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.

Viva. Pero viva a la manera en que está viva la muerte.

Of course I looked sad. But I didn't really feel sad. Or it wasn't a sadness that hurt, not an all-through one. I rather enjoyed it. Beastly, but I did. I sang on the way home. The romance, the mystery of it. Living.

În ciuda independenÈ›ei ei de suprafa??, simÈ›ea o nevoie esenÈ›ial? de a se ataÈ™a. Toat? viaÈ›a a încercat s? demonstreze contrariul, dovedind-o de fapt. Era ca o anemon? de mare, care se lipeÈ™te la prima atingere.

I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch. I remember (the very fisrt time i met him) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all. He meant art collectors, of course. I didn't really understand, I thought he was just trying to shock Caroline - and me. But of course, he is right. They're anti-life, anti-art, anti-everything.

She had read somewhere that we often grow to admire, even love, the very thing we so obsessively hate. It can become a part of our life, and we grow to rely on it, to need it. It defines us

He denied everything he had said about carrying the two Glasgow letters from Mary to Bothwell.