Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music,… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
“the paradox of Man was the fact that one might have been made in the image of God, yet it was often… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the… — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
“The 1st rule of logic club is that the 2nd rule is false. The 2nd rule of logic club is that the… — Makuochukwu Okigbo 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
“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
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
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
“Contrary to the dogma downloaded from our many cult-like institutions of higher (actually lower) learning, we’re not in any way separate from… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to… — Richard Brancatisano Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to… — Steven James Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“Unless you admit it to yourself, that you don’t know what is going on, will you experience what is going on. The… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist,… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new… — Patrick Dixon Copy Share Image
Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Can you grasp your right fist with your right hand? Obviously not -- your hand can't grasp itself. But there's another, less… — Mark Fabi Copy Share Image
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories,… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that… — Seth Copy Share Image
“A clear Brunian ‘coincidence of contraries’ has surfaced again, for to be happy when miserable translates Bruno’s paradoxical motto which preceded his… — Finn Fordham Copy Share Image
“I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they… — Jamie S. Rich Copy Share Image
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems… — William O'Neil Copy Share Image
