Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Pops added,you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve. And if you do, you never get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving… — Arthur Henderson 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
“Q: The Continuum didn't think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did...We wanted to see if you had… — Brannon Braga Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Isn't that the key to our easy divorces? If we cared for women in the old barbarous possessive way do you suppose… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,… — Sascha Rothchild Copy Share Image
One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then,… — Jeff Wall Copy Share Image
“It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it… — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that… — Seth Copy Share Image
“A clear Brunian ‘coincidence of contraries’ has surfaced again, for to be happy when miserable translates Bruno’s paradoxical motto which preceded his… — Finn Fordham Copy Share Image
“Can you grasp your right fist with your right hand? Obviously not -- your hand can't grasp itself. But there's another, less… — Mark Fabi Copy Share Image
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they… — Jamie S. Rich Copy Share Image
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist,… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new… — Patrick Dixon Copy Share Image
Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to… — Richard Brancatisano Copy Share Image
“The 1st rule of logic club is that the 2nd rule is false. The 2nd rule of logic club is that the… — Makuochukwu Okigbo Copy Share Image
This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the… — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
“The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“the paradox of Man was the fact that one might have been made in the image of God, yet it was often… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music,… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
