People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway… Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway… What you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have… — Tomochichi Copy Share Image
One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
Abraham responds "Here I am" when God asks him to sacrifice his son, and he answers "Here I am" when his son… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“large birds flew swiftly over the Bois, as over a real wood, and with shrill cries perched, one after another, on the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important,… — Aaron Mc Collough Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest… — E.M. Delafield Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the… — Franz Alexander Copy Share Image
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“… mourning is a paradoxical process in which a person must affirm precisely those orphaned desires that are most unrealistic and impossible… — Sandra Buechler Copy Share Image
The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
