We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious-… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its… — Ryszard Kapuscinski 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
The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it.… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was… — Mike Mills 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
“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not… — Michael Michalko Copy Share Image
The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
