Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A person cannot be equally divided between two contradictory identities. And if that's what happened, doesn't it stand to reason that when… — Shimon Ballas Copy Share Image
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women...… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped… — André Aciman 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
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two… — Robert Collier 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
We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“Fire like fear, like panic, like one more minute of this and I'll die if he doesn't knock at my door, but… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory. — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man." — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read… — Faris Badwan Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says:… — Frank Carson 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
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the… — David Antin Copy Share Image
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory. — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image