Quotes About Contradiction

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

The odd thing about Bob is that even though he's known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also a very moral man.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time.

If cell phones came with a cigarette dispenser, they'd be the greatest stupid invention ever.

God's nature has always been multifold, and never more than now. He dances with a dove in one hand and an ax in the other.

Solutions are not the answer.

A study of the brain using new technology showed that the thinking areas practically shut down when people were made to listen to information that contradicted their political beliefs. Conversely, when they heard information that tended to confirm their beliefs, the happiness centers of the brain lit up.

Nature had seemed to be closing in on us for a kill, when she suddenly turned her face away and smiled. It was a Mona Lisa smile, the meaning of which no one could figure out.

We seem to have this tendency to want to make things simple with formulas-and yet our formulas consistently make them more complex.

Man sagte den Priestern Soltars nach,dass sie auf ewig das letzte Wort behielten. Nur die Priester sahen es angeblich anders ... und widersprachen dem Gerücht.

I mean here to propound a paradox, that people can actively enter into their own passivity.

They are the same and they are not the same. They are the same and they hate each other for it.

We are clever; you are cunning. We support freedom fighters; you support terrorists. We set up holding centers; you set up concentration camps. We strategically withdraw; you retreat. We are religious; you are fanatic. We are determined; you are pig-headed. There are literally thousands of words that fall into good-when-I-do-it-bad-when-you-do doublets. Most people are not skilled in detecting doublespeak. Dirty

We are not merely the most intelligent of animals. We also have a rare and perplexing combination of moral tendencies. We can be the nastiest of species and also the nicest.

Rose never would have done anything like that,' he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint of a smile there. 'Well at least not in such a public setting.'- Dimitri Belikov

Behaviors and feelings rarely line up

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen." - Carter to Georgina

Rose laughed at that. "Oh, this I've got to see, comrade. Dimitri Belikov, badass god, installing a baby's car seat.

As much as I hated to admit it, I kind of looked forward to seeing him. It made no sense, but something about his infuriating nature made me forget about my other worries. Weirdly, I felt like I could relax around him.

It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form," she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.