Quotes About Contradiction

Lucia sighed and repeated, "Courage," in a voice that contradicted the word.

But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.

But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself.

How refreshing, amidst abounding contradiction, stupidity, and dull insusceptibility, this intimation brought to Him at the eleventh hour: "Here are certain Greeks who are interested in you, and want to see you!" The words fall on His ear like a strain of sweet music; the news is reviving to His burdened spirit like the sight of a spring to a weary traveler in a sandy desert; and in the fullness of His joy He exclaims: "The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

What if the novel in you is one you yourself would never read? A beach novel, a blockbuster, a long, windy, character-driven literary drama that ends sadly? What if the one novel in you is the opposite of your idea of yourself?

51. What if the novel in you is one you yourself would never read? A beach novel, a blockbuster, a long, windy, character-driven literary drama that ends sadly? What if the one novel in you is the opposite of your idea of yourself?

More sins have been committed by the church than any seaman

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

And he himself one vile antithesis.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

With too much quickness ever to be taught, with too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all t hat joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another

?tiu despre Eminescu m?rturii directe care contrazic foarte multe imagini despre el. Venea elegant ?i purta foarte bine, cu dezinvoltur? ?i prestan??, fracul. Iat? o prim? negare a legendei conform c?reia era tot timpul neglijent ?i i se plimbau insecte pe guler. Pe urm?, dansa foarte bine vals ?i era pl?cut în conversa?ie.

Din pasiunea gratuita a cunoasterii, din obsesia adevarului, cei pe care ii pretuim ca oameni inteligenti se descurca de obicei mai prost in viata decat prostii si ajung uneori sa-si neglijeze interesele si chiar sa lucreze impotriva lor, pastrand, totusi, cum spuneam la inceput, loc destul pentru prostia propriu-zisa. Deci inteligenta nu e in fond decat o prostie heteronoma.

Desgenais... was firm and serious, although a smile hovered about his lips. He was a man of heart, but as dry as a pumice-stone.

I [Nature] am called a mother, but I am a grave.

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

My parents weren't keen on me watching television when I was growing up, in the 70s and 80s, which is ironic given that I've ended up working in it.