Quotes About Contradiction

Dads had favourite armchairs in which they sat like starship captains, issuing orders and receiving cups of tea and shouting at the news without fear of contradiction.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word of it.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

But evangelicals are taught to pretend that there is no contradiction, because the Bible must not be questioned.

She thought the world a charnel house…and couldn't get enough of it. She thought herself unhappy…and wanted to live, unhappy, for as long as she possibly could.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

I also know that parents have discretionary recall, blocking out everything that contradicts our carefully edited recollections - an understandable attempt to dodge blame. Conversely, children often fixate on the indelibly painful memories, because they have made a stronger impression

The stuff in religion that you hate has no less of a basis in the source material than the stuff in religion you love.

How on earth Nietzsche, a supporter of Dionysus, went through a phase of vegetarianism is mind-boggling. Just as bad, Nietzsche was no fan of alcohol. No wonder Dionysus smote his sacrilegious ass and drove him insane, a common fate for all those that defy Dionysus.

A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other, is just an oxymoron.

be included among those Americans the modern theologian Donald W. Shriver Jr. has called "honest patriots," those who manifest an ironic-tragic love of country by learning, narrating, and working through its past of contradiction and evil, and not by evading it.

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

No buts, Ben. No. 'N' and 'O' spells 'no'.

if you give directions for a living, then it's pretty hard to follow them.

A fractured, flawed man, he combined elements of George Borup, Robert Peary, and Lord Byron.

Alternately and/or all at once, the Socratic pharmakon petrifies and vivifies, anesthetizes and sensitizes, appeases and anguishes.

Short, dark, and slight, he looks simultaneously middle-aged and prepubescent, a little worse for wear in any case with his black hair matted like a street cat and his eyes crusted over and bleary.

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle

I like you a little more than I want to but not nearly as much as you think I do.

I had forgot," I said slowly, "Forgot what?" "That talking to you is like staring into a carnival looking glass. Up is down, down is up, Nothing makes sense." "Of course it does." His voice was gentle and his smile back in evidence. "Veronica, do you think I enjoy playing the villain? I loathe it. I want only to be left alone, but like any creature, I will fight if I am cornered...

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together...Layers, by their nature, are fragile things.