If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions. — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I can choose to live in isolation. But therein lays the great rub; in doing so I have in reality chosen… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the… — Julian Critchley Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Look but don't touch. Taste but don't eat. Smell but don't desire. Depart form all sanity.” — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions. — Abraham ibn Ezra Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
“In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image