Quotes About Contradiction

It is impossible to be an anti-Communist and it is not possible to be a Communist.

There is passivity right there in activity...And there is activity right there in passivity.

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

sve ima svoju suprotnu stranu i ljudski duh, živ i uznemiren poželi da prevrne svaku stvar da joj vidi nali?je pitaju?i se da to možda nije lice

Od Bosanca se može svemu nadati. Godinama živi kao pametan ?ovjek, a onda sve u?ini da bi dokazao da je budala.

But more and more often I caught myself feeling comfortable in the warmth of the sun, with my readings, with the reflections in the water. Life became ordinary, even beautiful, tranquil. It seemed that I really was forgetting; a quiet reigned within me. But then, unexpectedly, for no apparent reason, unaccompanied by any thoughts that might have summoned it, a fiery stab would pierce through me, like a hidden, torturous pain, like a cramp.

Zatvorio sam se, postao opsa?ena tvr?ava o koju su strijele uzalud udarale. Nije mi prijatelj, ili je ?udan prijatelj koji mi sije?e korijenje, potkopava temelje. Nema prijateljstva me?u ljudima koji druk?ije misle.

A veces veo cosas que no puedo entender. Como personas que sonríen cogidas de la mano cuando en realidad se odian. Es algo que me desconcierta, y Gil dice que es porque sin duda es desconcertante. Es lo mismo que ser traductor. Hay cosas que no se pueden traducir porque las palabras no existen en el otro idioma, o el significado es tan específico de un lugar o un modo de hablar que desaparece en la traducción. Pero a veces hay pistas.

No, not just the visual. There's the emotional part too. There's that line Faulkner said, about how you don't love because. You love despite.

The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated. The city at that moment was not a place that anyone would remember with nostalgia, except for the fact that in the midst of all this, if you played it right, your money could double, and you could buy a big apartment with triple-glazed windows that overlooked the chaos.

The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.

Sometimes it feels like life's about understanding how much opposites meet. Kill to cure, poison to immunize, sacrifice to save.

Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. She was all open mouth, tunneling into an awful nothing.

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.

Peace, hands and mouth smeared with chocolate pudding, blinks and says nothing. Happy frowns. Bliss, firmly ensconced on Liesel's hip, babbles something so cute and precious it would be nice to take a second to appreciate it, but Liesel is caught between her genuine and somewhat frightening fury and her shame at realizing that she's turned into everything she swore she'd never be.

Heath said, cold as ice, cold as a void, so cold it burned her worse than any fire. "Don't you know? Not wanting to and not being able to are not the same things.

It's just Jessica and Marcus, oxymoronically alone together.

Jesus from the moment he first appears in Galilee is a sign of contradiction, fomenting revolution through telling the truth about the state of the world, the reality of evil, and the eye of God, who judges in a different vein altogether than courts of law, whether they be religious canons, the ecclesiastical courts, or government legal systems.

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!

Comedy is protest. It's "I beg to differ," if you're fancy, or if you're Jewish, "Hey, listen to this!