Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I think, us as human beings, we hold multitudes and contradictions. We are the definition of a contradiction and that's what makes… — Myha'la Copy Share Image
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I love that contradiction between the ugly and the nice. It's shot in a very gourmet way in the Perfume: The Story… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions:… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
“In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“An omnipotent god can create a being whose acts are known only to itself. An omniscient god cannot do this. It would… — Richard R. LA Croix Copy Share Image
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
“If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every… — Ronald Nash Copy Share Image
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
There are several states where you can get married. But I think I can say without fear of contradiction, 'Paradise awaits.' We'll… — Neil Abercrombie Copy Share Image
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
