“the character of American civilization is a bundle of contradictions,” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Life…is a wonder. It is a sky laden with clouds of contradictions.” — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions…” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Even if, as some have argued, we are no more than the sum of our parts, we can still take comfort in… — shukyou Copy Share Image
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Force is often used to enforce peace and an A bomb did bring world war 2 to a shuddering halt. The funniest… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.” — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
“Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be… — H.D.F. Kitto Copy Share Image
I think we're all full of contradictions; I am someone who is attracted to difficulty but also someone who believes in solutions… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“Every one of us is a walking set of contradictions. The great among us are no different, except that their contradictions tend… — Jeffrey S. Young Copy Share Image
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
