Quotes About Contradiction

El secuestro es una contradicción en un país que nació de la lucha contra la esclavitud"

I declare, you eat more plums than you pick up," Mary said. "I don't either any such a thing," Laura contradicted. "I pick up every plum I eat.

We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

I could drink a pot of caffeine and sleep like a baby. It doesn't keep me awake or make me jumpy. It just tastes better.

I felt naked without the Browning, which was kind of funny, considering I had an Uzi in my suitcase. But hey, I slept with the Browning. Richard

Total consistency is an appalling virtue.

If everyone was really having sex, they why was it paradoxically a hush-hush-whisper thing and a scream-it-online-and -in-the-cafeteria thing? If everyone was really having sex, why weren't more girls sporting baby bumps? I know the statistics.

Are you kidding I was raised Catholic, my mom just came back from a Saint Francis Pilgrimage in Italy and bought a huge statue to prove it, big as you. Big as you. Catholics aren't like that, they can be a little slutty at times, sure and there's the pedophilia, but they aren't allowed to be strippers! It's not allowed!

For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.

Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.

Great system: the poison and the antidote come in the same bottle

he had discovered for himself the uselessness of having opinions and in consequence made a habit of usually saying the opposite of what he thought in a joking way. He was an ironist, hence he appeared often to violate good sense: hence too his equivocal air, the apparent frivolity with which he addressed himself to large subjects. This sort of serious clowning leaves footmarks in conversation of a peculiar kind. His little sayings stayed like the pawmarks of a cat in a pat of butter.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine'.)

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.