One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions -… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I… — Richard Misrach 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
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
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within… — Audre Lorde 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
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous 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
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
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
“Away from Lev, she craves his need for her. When with him, it enervates. Why is that? She cannot help it. Nothing… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all,… — Ken Wilber 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
“I am an inconsistent creature. Perhaps it is the pressure of my past, and not my own perverse mind, that has made… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories,… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“That which is never contradictory at all is referred to as nature. When '2H' and 'O' come together along with certain other… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are… — Albert Einstein 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
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one. — George Seldes Copy Share Image
'Colonialism' and 'democracy' are two contradictory terms. In order to be 'democratic' a country has to be free. Right now, Indonesian people… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“In his different discourses, even the Buddha gave contradictory explanations. The context of the explanation and the audience for whom it was… — Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye Copy Share Image
To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and… — Gayle Pemberton Copy Share Image
The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the… — Amy Hardie 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
