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Quotes About Contradiction

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.
~ Deb Caletti
Nice can have an edge.
~ Deb Caletti
It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.
~ Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Who needs toothpaste when you have cigarettes?
~ kevin mcpherson eckhoff
In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.
~ Ciore Taylor
We live a life of opposites. We want things we can't have and have things we don't want.
~ Raymond C. Nolan
To be logical is very illogical.
~ Debasish Mridha
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.
~ Lucille Kallen
Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense
~ Dave Mustaine
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
~ Jim Morrison
Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.
~ Derek Landy
You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.
~ Stuart Hill
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
~ Frank Herbert
Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.
~ Edna O'Brien
Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.
~ Ann Aguirre
Tratar con un matrimonio es como tratar con una sola persona contradictoria y desmemoriada.
~ Javier Marías
Todo me resultaba extrañamente conocido y ajeno, o íntimo y reprobable
~ Javier Marías
We could go up to the top of the hill, and restructure our entrance, do away with the contradiction of being nowhere but here, the assumed proportion of a presence that will always escape, of being nowhere but near the presumed indifference that solicits our wakefulness. Day begins its indiscreet translation once again, flowing through the pearl white of loss, or the indelible deep blue of fractured words. Remove emptiness. Replace nothing.
~ Jay Wright
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
~ Jean Cocteau
Love and friendship exclude each other.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
And it's that impulse to negate our own impressions that is so astonishingly powerful.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
I loved him too much not to hate him at all!
~ Jean Racine