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Quotes About Contradictions

When we try to love we are not actually trying to undertake a single endeavor; rather, we are trying to do a whole range of different, and sometimes not very compatible, things simultaneously.
~ John Armstrong
Its important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
~ Richey Edwards
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat wh
~ Frank Sinatra
Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
~ Danielle LaPorte
It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
~ Anthony Sampson
We're clear. We're vague. We hate. We love. We feel passionately about our shoes yet shrug off disasters on TV. We are finely tuned sensors of right and wrong, and horrible examples for our kids. We are walking contradictions. We are encyclopedias of the heart.
~ Donald Maass
Exactly what I said: she's still a child in many ways, so she's discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time, and she still sees each one as a discrete unit: she hasn't seen the connections or contradictions among them; not yet.' She
~ Donna Leon
Democrats often discard science and common sense. It's obvious when you consider the contradictions they put forth. Gender is a social construct yet transgenders can be born the wrong one. Diversity is the highest ideal, but a diversity of outcomes is unacceptable, and a diversity of opinions is intolerable. Equality for men and women is essential, but not when it comes to dangerous jobs, suicide rates, or family court.
~ Unknown
Uno es un grupo de contradicciones, intelectuales y emotivas. Solamente tú no eres una contradicción: siempre te quiero
~ Unknown
Real human nature is made up of curious contradictions. Strangely conflicting master-passions struggle for the victory.
~ Lyman Abbott
The more one tries to analyze oneself the more one is conscious of amazing paradoxes and inconsistencies which lurk under the simplest surface.
~ John Cowper Powys
The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometimes you just feel everything and nothing all at once. Sometimes you'll find yourself smiling while missing something at the same time. At times you can absolutely love a person, all the while wanting to hate them. Life comes without guarantees. Accept that smiling will brighten your face. Laughing will enhance your eyes. And Falling in love will change your life...
~ Unknown
Sometimes you are hot, sometimes you are cold, sometimes I miss you, and at times I can't stand you; I know your love is bipolar but above all, I love you so I understand you.
~ Unknown
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.
~ Man Ray
In the following reading of Firestone on the question of technology I suggest we do read her as flawed and as "failed," but that this is both a necessary condition of the well-known contradictions that inevitably beset the feminist movement more broadly, and that they are what Firestone told us to expect (and why).
~ Unknown
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.
~ Marcel Proust
For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of doctors, even when we call in the best of them the chances are that we may be staking our hopes on some medical theory that will be proved false in a few years. So that to believe in medicine would be utter madness, were it not still a greater madness not to believe in it, for from this accumulation of errors a few valid theories have emerged in the long run.
~ Marcel Proust
For the paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.
~ John Steinbeck
They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life.
~ John Steinbeck
I wanna have a good grades without studying. I wanna have money without working. But most of all, I wanna love without getting hurt.
~ Unknown
Life would be perfect if: Mondays were fun, junk food was healthy, drama didn't exist, and goodbyes were only until tomorrow.
~ Unknown
Life isn't all haha hehe.
~ Meera Syal
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you care.You have to unlearn to know the lesson. You have to give up because you are strong.You have to be wrong to make things right.Nonetheless, life's complexities are also life's source of beauty. We should cry to laugh again, fall apart to be whole again, and get hurt to love again.
~ Unknown