Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations… — Mariela Castro Copy Share Image
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“but could a man be simultaneously bad and good, we asked ourselves, and the Afghan Moon replied that irreconcilable contradiction and the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“So I shut up and hold out a one-pound note, but he throws it on the ground, snatches back both pieces of… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Beauty loves contradiction. Beauty is born of desire. And without beauty, there is nothing. Beauty is our keeper, our master, our reason.… — Thomas Lloyd Qualls Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere. — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image