Contradictory Quotes · Page 14

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most…

— Mikhail Bakhtin

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

— Doug Liman

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another…

— Kiran Desai

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His…

— Joseph Addison

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

— Robert A. Heinlein

These principles, universally recognized, are at fault when the question of the existence of God is considered; what has been said of…

— Baron d'Holbach

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a…

— Albert Camus

I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory…

— Joshua Reynolds

U.S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people,…

— Edwin Meese

America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's…

— Mark Steyn

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense…

— Luis Gonzalez

To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are…

— Omali Yeshitela

I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what…

— Robert Fulghum

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned…

— Ralph Ellison

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in…

— Jeffrey Deitch

The claim that democracy and efficiency are contradictory is nonsense. That's evident in the history of democracy itself, because it is only…

— Sigmar Gabriel

Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts…

— Joseph Conrad

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

— Alan Lightman

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory,…

— Junot Diaz

Some may try to argue that conservatism and libertarianism are contradictory perspectives. But I disagree.

— Michael O'Rielly

[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,…

— Ayn Rand

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

— Richard Overy

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of…

— Harper Lee

It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory…

— Carl Jung

One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of…

— John Desmond Bernal