There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use… — Susan Lindauer Copy Share Image
For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made… — George Soros Copy Share Image
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think, us as human beings, we hold multitudes and contradictions. We are the definition of a contradiction and that's what makes… — Myha'la Copy Share Image
Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“He's a contradiction: taut magic coiled to strike, gentleness at war with severity, a tongue as sharp as a whip's edge, yet… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such… — Karen O 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
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
