If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Yeah but Father, is that what you meant by God being a paradox? How he was so pleased to get a chance… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
“He was a paradox, a walking contradiction. How he could perform such a violent act without hesitation in one moment and be… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Life's a paradox. What you want, you don't get; what you get, you don't enjoy; what you enjoy isn't permanent; what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“The paradox of identity liberalism is that it paralyzes the capacity to think and act in a way that would actually accomplish… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big… — Katerina Graham Copy Share Image
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it.… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of… — I.I. Gitelson Copy Share Image
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
