“The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of… — I.I. Gitelson Copy Share Image
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“God an all-powerful being who knows the beginning and ending of all things created an angel knowing fully well that the angel… — N.K. Aning Copy Share Image
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect… — J. M. DeMatteis Copy Share Image
In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you… — John Brabender Copy Share Image
This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically… — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Yes, and you’ve never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That’s your problem. You live and breathe paradox… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“grip of Paradox. A predatory bird with a great sharp beak and vicious talons—Paradox. To be in its grip is to suffer,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I had always been troubled by the liberal paradox of wanting everyone to be treated the same, while at the same time… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“There’s a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn’t… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little kid, there was something about change that scared me so much, but, at the same time,… — MO Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead, something to which lip service is paid in… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
![“In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the…” quote by John Brabender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/918/john-brabender-35484_collars_in-a-state-like-pennsylvania-the-paradox_984281.jpg)
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