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Quotes About Contradictory

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
~ Ivan Doig
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.
~ Graham Norton
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
~ Thomas Mann
Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
~ Adelaide Clemens
What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and contradictory stupidities. That has been one of the great delights over our seven collaborations.
~ Timothy Spall
Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.
~ Denise Van Outen
Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.
~ Roxane Gay
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
~ Emma Goldman
For what is force? - that which moves matter. And what is matter? that which is moved by force.. Like all other basic principles, this is also self contradictory.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
~ Sydney Schanberg
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
~ Doug Liman
The story of Noah is self-contradictory, uncorroborated by independent historical evidence, and is generally at odds with everything we know about our planet's geology, biology, and species diversity.
~ Kyle Hill
I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.
~ Alanis Morissette
My dad was a quiet assassin. He was really charming and smiley and softly spoken, but he could knock you out in a second.
~ Jimmy Barnes
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
~ Germaine Greer
Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as part philosophy, part mythology, leaving it open to competing and contradictory interpretations.
~ Barkha Dutt
Blessed are the dumbfucks
~ Christopher Moore
Don't let the tattoo fool you. I'm no angel.
~ Cat Johnson
It's funny to think of that voice in our head as our own, and that we tend to believe it and value what it says, when so often it's contradictory, unhelpful, and unkind...We are so much kinder and more courageous than this voice, which is often fearful and upset with life.
~ Gina Lake
Natura nu mai g?se?te nicio ie?ire din labirintul for?elor încâlcite ?i contradictorii, ?i atunci omul trebuie s? moar?.
~ Goethe
She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent.
~ Gordon Dahlquist
I'm like a candy cane — sweet and twisted.
~ Internet meme, c. 2012
Many investors understandably want to do good while also doing well. But the standards for ESG investing are often unclear and sometimes contradictory.
~ Eugene Scalia
I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.
~ Nic Pizzolatto