Quotes About Contradiction

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?

It would be ironic,' I panted to Burrich and Dutiful, 'if after all these years of longing to die, he finally perished in an attempt to live.' Burrich snorted. 'We all perish in our last attempt to live.

I hate irony. It is a manacle that ties our dreams to our fears.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

I'm simple when you want me to be complicated. And I'm complicated when you want me to be simple.

They say nothing to me in a very loud way.

am the puzzle piece that you think will fit but doesn't. The color is a little off, the edges don't sit quite flush. You can't force it. Though you might try.

Every sign secretly contains its opposite

To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.

We're required to learn to swim but we're not allowed in the river," she found herself telling him.

Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.

Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

oppositosis.

on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Breathtakingly generous in his philanthropy, Rockefeller could also be stingy—appallingly so.

This contradiction posed a central dilemma for John D. Rockefeller and his descendants, who would struggle tirelessly against the baneful effects of wealth.

What makes him so problematic—and why he continues to inspire such ambivalent reactions—is that his good side was every bit as good as his bad side was bad.

Harry Truman once said: "Find me a one-armed economist, because every one I know always says, 'Well, on the other hand . . .

Ir en contra de la corriente general es algo sumamente incómodo. Puede que la mayoría de las miserias morales e intelectuales se cometan por eso: por no contradecir las ideas de tus patronos, de tus vecinos, de tus amigos. Un pensamiento independiente es un lugar solitario y ventoso.

La realidad es obcecada y compleja e insiste en llevarnos obscenamente la contraria cuando nos ponemos soñadores.

aunque no sepas el tiempo que te queda, no eres otra cosa que un condenado a muerte? Y, sin embargo, a la mañana siguiente vuelve a estallar la vida con su alegre mentira