Quotes About Contradiction

I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate.

That much sexual tension makes me want to hump a phone pole, and that's just not attractive in a pregnant woman.

You are ice and fire, The touch of you burns my hands like snow. You are cold and flame. You are the crimson of amaryllis, The silver of moon-touched magnolias. When I am with you, My heart is a frozen pond Gleaming with agitated torches.

I both love and do not love; am mad and not mad.

I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad.

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

It is a human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.

What a lot of books!" she screamed. "And have you really read them all, Monsieur Bonnard?" "Alas! I have," I replied, "and that is just the reason that I do not know anything; for there is not a single one of those books which does not contradict some other book; so that by the time one has read them all one does not know what to think about anything. That is just my condition, Madame.

Within every one of us, there lives both a Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged to admire.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

Onun önünde öylesine kar???k duygular duyuyordum ki, kendim bile güç anl?yordum. Hem ondan nefret ediyor, hem de ona tap?yordum. Hem suçsuz, hem de suçlu buluyordum onu. Haz?rlad???m ?iddetli kavga, dostça ve içten bir konu?maya dönü?üyordu.

Si no llevo la contraria no puedo vivir contenta

Le spun oamenilor c? nu m? uit la programe sportive. Nu-mi plac. Cum adic?? Adic?, nu-mi place sportul. Ei râd. Adic? nu-mi place niciun sport în afar? de tenis? Nu, tenisul îl ur?sc mai mult decât pe toate celelalte. Da, da, sigur c? e o glum?. Nu ai cum s? ur??ti tenisul. Ba da.

We tried to be all of the things ... we are not.

Self-isolation in a slum is a contradiction in terms.

We felt uncomfortable in a country that called itself "the land of the free" but did not do much to qualify for the claim.

Most Texas Klan supporters saw no contradiction between the politics of the Klan and the fundamentalist theology of the Baptist churches many of them attended on Sunday mornings.

Americans today must reckon with a contradiction of gaping proportions. Promising prosperity and peace, the Washington rules are propelling the United States toward insolvency and perpetual war.(Washington rules, p. 250)

On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.