Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When you're under pressure and you're getting hammered by the media, it is a burden. It's the opinions that get you, and… — David James Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
“Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“However, he still retained something of the fluid notions of male and female at the heart of the Ramakrishna's spiritual idealism: 'The… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
“He quickened his stride: 'The truth is in the paradox, Miss Drake. Anything not done in submission to God, anything not done… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one:… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you… — Jacqueline McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
From the moment he took the oath of office in 1993 until he left the White House in 2001, Bill Clinton was… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“We're here to keep you in one piece, if you ignore us, you're quite likely to end up in two pieces, or… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
“Your reality is not gone, but the image of it is not with you anymore. I will be your mirror of reality;… — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I… — Geena Rocero Copy Share Image
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Albeit, you are the only one to do the right thing, never feel alone. Always keep in mind that you're trying something… — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the… — Jim Collins Copy Share Image
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