To hope is to contradict the future.

“No need to be intimidated, tesoro, but do be careful." "See, those two statements seem like they contradict each other to me, Gio.”

— elizabeth hunter

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and…

— Carrie Coon

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

— Robert Creeley

“As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are…

— Carl Sagan

Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again…

— Galileo Galilei

“I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

In a world where people want answers immediately, I'm behaving a lot of the time in ways that contradict certain people's beliefs, or normally…

— Matty Healy

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince…

— Albert Camus

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much…

— Charles Lyell

Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of…

— Carl Sagan

“Our law and our morality contradict one another.”

— Joseph Befumo

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on…

— Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh