The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of… — Jean Jaques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene.… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
“Beware those who stand nearest, for they see both your strengths and your scars. The hand that offers comfort can just as… — Pierre Lagrenat Copy Share Image
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
“Each time they meet, they have more to discuss, and so they talk, quietly revealing themselves with and without language, their eyes… — Karen Connelly Copy Share Image
“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of… — Bob Hamilton Copy Share Image
Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes.… — Asahel Nettleton Copy Share Image
I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“As Carl Rogers, one of the founders of humanistic psychology, once noted: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as… — William Ury Copy Share Image
There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“So I shut up and hold out a one-pound note, but he throws it on the ground, snatches back both pieces of… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western… — Richard Layard, Baron Layard Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
