There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance. — Matthew Syed Copy Share Image
“When I get honest I admit that I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and I… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If you don't risk anything, you gain nothing. When you gain nothing, you risk even more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't — Nancy Cartwright Copy Share Image
The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Life's a paradox. What you want, you don't get; what you get, you don't enjoy; what you enjoy isn't permanent; what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Joshua to Angela: "Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun." She looked at him… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image