Quotes About Contradiction

English is a bitch

Can one be both barbarian of the soul and sophisticated of the mind?

Probably I am a fool…most poets are fools…but for some reason I love faith, but have none.

I wear silk — the cover to uncover — because silk is what I want you to think of. But I dislike the cloth. It is too stern

If this is hell, then hell could not be much, neither as special nor as ugly as I was told.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché.

S. est né le 6 avril 53. Ma mère est morte le 7 avril. Eric a été conçu le 2 avril. À nouveau désir de le voir. Pourtant, cela se résume à ceci : il baise, il boit de la vodka, il parle de Staline.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about 'God' and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self?contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny 'God,' which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.

Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

Cine ?tie, se poate ca via?a s? fie moarte iar moartea s? fie via??.

He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.

The odd thing about Mama was that she liked to think of herself as a doomy sort of person, but there was a natural optimism in her that refused to be defeated, however hard she squashed it down, and I know that she never lost faith completely.

Evan Stark pointed out that there is no incompatibility between hate and love: the two coexist in relationships all the time. So do violence and love, as strange and awful as it may seem.

Free as air; that's what they say- free as air. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.