Quotes About Contradiction

Mi è sempre sembrato strano, disse il Dottore. Le cose che ammiriamo negli uomini, la bontà, la generosità, la franchezza, l'onestà, la saggezza e la sensibilità, sono in noi elementi che portano alla rovina. E le caratteristiche che detestiamo, la furberia, la cupidigia, l'avarizia, la meschinità, l'egoismo, portano al successo. E mentre gli uomini ammirano le prime di queste qualità, amano il risultato delle seconde.

Purtiest goddamn country you ever seen, but they ain't nice to you, them folks. They're so scairt an' worried they ain't even nice to each other.

The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts.

Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

I love you," he says, and the fact that he doesn't makes it true.

Nature kills constantly, and we call her beautiful.

Christians claim their faith gave rise to modern science even though the Bible literally contains talk of a six-day creation, a three-tired universe, a worldwide flood let loose from the firmament above, nine-hundred-year-old men, talking snakes and donkeys, a sun that stood still, and a hell in the deepest parts of the earth, and they still want to claim their faith gave rise to science?

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Scrooge is no Marley, and Marley is no Scrooge, and their partnership is the better for it.

The Cadillac Escalade is the perfect vehicle for a pimp with a growing family.

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

Don't worry about the haters. They are just angry because the truth you speak contradicts the lie they live.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

Life has 3 rules, paradox, humor, and change.

Life's a paradox. What you want, you don't get; what you get, you don't enjoy; what you enjoy isn't permanent; what is permanent, is boring...that's life!

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.