“The Elegance Paradox is this: to create elegance requires entirely inelegant preparation, but nobody should be able to see that.” — Dan Ward Copy Share Image
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“The tourist’s paradox: how to find somewhere that’s free of people exactly like us.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They… — Brian May Copy Share Image
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
“It’s a paradox. If I’m not strong enough to say no to my dad, I’m surely not strong enough to run the… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility…And the paradox of it all has been… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Is it a paradox to firmly state in one breath that you don't believe in an almighty, and in that same instance,… — D W Wilkin Copy Share Image
But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated.… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Russell’s paradox threatened to deal a far more serious blow to set theory than earlier ideological objections. The problem was this: consider… — Ananyo Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different - unique.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid,… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't — Nancy Cartwright Copy Share Image
