Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker 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
I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
In India you would find people who belong to the 10 richest people in the entire world, and you would find people… — Cyril Shroff Copy Share Image
There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion — Errol Flynn 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
I love life and I love that about people... I adore the human experience, I really adore the ... I love the… — Jewel Copy Share Image
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
