Quotes About Contradiction

What casual monsters we are. What calamities we are capable of.

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.

I'm a babe magnet... just the wrong end.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

Los posmodernos, al aparentar que iban aún más allá de la teoría situacionista, en verdad la convirtieron en lo contrario de lo que era.

Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate.

Funny how to celebrate peace we seem to want to simulate war.

Cicero's central concern is the contradiction between virtue and the inevitable expediencies that divert human agents from the path of right conduct.

There were three main new schools of thought: the Epicureans, the Stoics and the Sceptics. On the whole, if an Epicurean said one thing, a Stoic would say the opposite and a Sceptic would refuse to commit himself either way.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.

I'm sure it was real but it resembled one of those cheap wigs worn by department-store mannequins, jet black and as glossy as nylon. It didn't seem to belong to her head.

It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions.

I hadn't liked him the day I'd met him although the strange thing is that I'd always loved his books.

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.

I'm punk, but I love gold.

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.