If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of… — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of… — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image
I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations… — Terry McAuliffe Copy Share Image
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Once we have found our passion, we feel a strange contradiction: On one hand, we could die today and life would have… — Janet Hagberg Copy Share Image
“But this is the ultimate contradiction of cinema. It's a medium BORN of technology, AFRAID of technology and evolving towards the future… — Edward Ross Copy Share Image
“When I first met you I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time running… — Haruki Murakami 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
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
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