Quotes About Contradiction

She was secretly amused by the man who managed to give the impression of moving in all directions while standing still.

But what is happening in America today is, I think, unparalleled in history. We are rising to the top and falling to the bottom; we are becoming wealthier as individuals and baser as a society; we are more powerful than ever and less mindful; we share a level of prosperity that is so high that it is a new thing in history, unprecedented in the story of man, and yet this wonderful thing we share has not made us closer as a people. And this has implications.

even the Christian heaven is just real human hell. Add eternal to anything, even eating pussy while listening to Dylan, and you get hell.

Thérése y Jérémy cultivan, desde siempre, ese arte del quid pro quo que es la sal de sus relaciones. De acuerdo en todo, no se entienden en nada. Es su modo de soportar la condena perpetua de la fraternidad

She stared at the television. "Why is it that after all the bullets have bounced off Superman's chest, he then ducks when the villain throws the empty gun at him?

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled the lie his tongue disdained to speak.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Who the hell is afraid of a fridge but ties himself to a puma?

Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.

Nothing is more natural, of course, than that extreme environments produce their opposites.

The point is that Proverbs 26:4–5 doesn't tell me what to do. It wasn't designed to. It models something better: the permission to think it through, figure it out, and learn from experience for next time. In fact, more than just giving us permission, the contradiction sets up our expectation that we will have to think it through.

Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily.

And I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

Europeans need easy explanations; they will always choose a simple lie over a contradictory truth.

Stupid people often say the smartest things.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Ich will zwei Menschen gleichzeitig sein. Der eine rennt weg.

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.