I had always been troubled by the liberal paradox of wanting everyone to be treated the same, while at the same time… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One of lifes sharpest paradoxes is that our brightest future hinges on our ability to pay attention to what were doing right… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so… — Ken Wytsma Copy Share Image
“She abandoned me. This was devastating. And the paradox was that the moment she abandoned me, she began to be with me… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony… — Itzhak Bentov Copy Share Image
There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
“I call it the Pretty Paradox. Pretty girls always want guys who treat them, and most everyone else, like complete shit. It… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“At which Charion Pratt blushed girlishly, to her own furious embarrassment, yet the eye she cast upon the little coxcomb was not… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and… — Joy Page Copy Share Image
“No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The paradox of health care is that it is one of the most powerful ways of fighting poverty, yet can itself become… — The Lancet Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has… — Michael Kimmelman 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
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can… — Andrew Ferguson Copy Share Image
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
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