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Quotes About Contradictory

It's hard to pin me down because I'm a bit of Bernie Sanders, a bit of Rand Paul, bit of John Kasich.
~ Steve Hilton
You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
~ John Lydon
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
~ Dave Eggers
Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
She was a giant, but no saint.
~ Jung Chang
Law is just religion for atheists, dear. It's equally shot full of contradictory nonsense.
~ Karen Traviss
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
~ Salvador Dali
My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.
~ Sherry Lansing
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
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
~ George Eliot
Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.
~ Sigmund Freud
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.
~ Robert Penn Warren
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
Oh my…!Love can be troubled somber, mournful and yet subtle and precise. Love is a chaotic thing, my dear!
~ Alba Avila
I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.
~ Faris Badwan
The world is complicated," she added. "You don't have to have one emotion at a time.
~ Will Schwalbe
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.
~ David Brewster
Yeah, you're hard to respect But easy to please.
~ David Elliott
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.
~ Robert Fulghum
London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.
~ Neil Gaiman
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.
~ Julian Baggini
Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?
~ Lauren Bacall
What's the opposite of opposite? Consider yourself bamboozled!
~ Russell Howard