Quotes About Contradictory

Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

Well I am a Gemini.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

Women are very unpredictable.

The woman's goal seemed to be, "Don't teach the kid to challenge our assumptions (especially, if they're wrong or contradictory); instead, teach the child to roll over and be submissive.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

He was like anybody else, Red said. Insufferable and likeable. Bad and good.

The ability to calmly speak with one's spouse as to the whereabouts of the espresso tamper means asking the autonomic nervous system to perform two contradictory goals at the same time—and the key to that, says Porges, is the vagal brake. The vagus nerve links up all the tools we need to respond to an existential threat, and so the vagal brake is a signal sent through the system for everything to stand down and engage—at ease. And it turns out there is a simple measure

A crazy parent, America was. Good and openhearted one way, dismissive and cruel in others.

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the questions we submitted and others that the prosecutor submitted. After we went through the answers we were to pick or eliminate jurors, asking additional questions as needed. Some of the answers were so contradictory and such a study on the level of racism in amerika that it would take a book just to report on them. In one hundred percent of the cases we were able to tell whether the prospective juror was Black, white, or "other," just by reading the answers.

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

So why do we sometimes appear in practice prototypical in our classifications, even if in principal we are Aristotelian? For two main reasons: because each classification system is tied to a particular set of coding practices; and because classification systems in general...reflect the conflicting, contradictory motives of the sociotechnical situations that gave rise to them.

the human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

I have always been an anarchist and a monarchist.

Triumph was laughable and terrible and his.

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

It's difficult to feel silly and depressed at the same time, but I manage.

we were able to acknowledge that all these mutually contradictory opinions were right on some point in these complicated interrelationships, and to demonstrate that they had discovered something that was correct.

love is an emotional experience and everything emotional is contradictory to my methods. I will never marry in order to avoid contaminating my judgement Sherlock Holmes

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

I hated and loved him in turns, as witches will do, for our hearts are strange and inexplicable.