One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth,… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I'm quite contradictory - a bit OCD, but quite untidy. I have piles of stuff everywhere, but they make sense to me.… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Katya, for Lev, is a vortex, by turn alluring and animal, icy and disaffected, often in one same day. Katya is symmetry-breaking.” — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
