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
“It was all very well to aim at the intention of the soul: who could tell what that was when people seemed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“But nature is actually kind of unnatural, in a way. And relaxation can actually be threatening. It takes experience and preparation to… — Haruki Murakami 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
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
“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
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Christianity rejects tolerance and demands choice, wherein lies its greatest flaw - one of a multitude of contradictions found throughout the Bible… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
“He had never been a believer in systems—his was an overweening faith that life lay in the contradictions, not in the formulae,… — Stacy Schiff 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
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
“Brainstorm and make impossible possible. Make contradictions realistic. As if a contradiction is the other name of impossibility? Or simply impossible when… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“They were falling back into familiarity, into common ground, into the dirty gray. Just ordinary humans in ordinary opaque boiled-egg light, without… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
“Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see.… — donal ryan Copy Share Image
What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole. — Danielle LaPorte 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
“Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between contradictions ... for the god wants to know… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the… — Simone De Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Far from the quick and easy exit that Leave campaigners once promised, Brexit has become mired in its own internal contradictions. — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
“Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image