The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“Love, the phenomenal act of canceling self in favor of the very same self.” — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
“-perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. — George Will Copy Share Image
So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the… — Jane Pratt Copy Share Image
The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists. — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Habits & Contradictions' is the prequel to 'Setbacks.' I had all these titles already in my head before I even dropped 'em.… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So,… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk… — Tom Silverman Copy Share Image
Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable.… — Don Johnston Copy Share Image
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
