Quotes About Contradiction

Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

I believe every major strength we have can be used against us as a weakness. At the same time, things that people see as weakness can be part of our strength.

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.

What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

I'm a policeman on television but an absolute wuss in real life.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Lula aimed to both internationalize big Brazilian capital and improve the domestic market and the condition of the poorest in Brazil. In the gaze of a lot of people, this was a big contradiction, but for Lula, this was the most natural thing in the world, to think about these two things together.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish.

I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.

Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

I never got to see inside No 10, but I did once go to Ann Widdecombe's ministerial office under the Commons where she sat framed by two posters on her wall, one featuring a Technicolor foetus in an anti-abortion message, the other Garfield the Cat wryly musing, 'The Diet Starts... Tomorrow.'

Money can't buy poverty.

Power is paradoxical.

By my very nature, I would never achieve a great level of consistency. That's my appeal and my downfall rolled into one.

Everything contains its antithesis.