Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and… — Moshe Safdie 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 think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God's arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other… — George Saunders 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
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes… — Abdu'l-Bahá 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
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
You have got to compete with them...you have to be working toward a future of your own. A picture of the future… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Jo and I tried for a second baby, but it didn't happen. The doctors - silly idiots - didn't take the problem… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm… — Aja Naomi King Copy Share Image
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our… — Anonymous 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
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
“Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the… — André Breton Copy Share Image
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out… — Claude Levi-Strauss 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
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“The point is, it seems to me that my mind is a mass of totally contradictory attitudes about everything.’ ‘Everyone’s mind is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in Spain again, or, for that matter, in America, and tried to take away whatever dwindling civil liberties and human rights we retain, I would resist them with a club if I had to…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f46/murray-bookchin-2587_admiration_i-will-not-call-myself-a-pacifist-for-th_1047865.jpg)
![“The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't; b] he has a high IQ, but they don't.” quote by Steve Sailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/850/steve-sailer-33384_belief_the-typical-white-intellectual-considers_81076.jpg)
