All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has… — Michael Kimmelman 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
We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,'… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“However, he still retained something of the fluid notions of male and female at the heart of the Ramakrishna's spiritual idealism: 'The… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot… — Pico Iyer 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
“That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles? — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so… — Ken Wytsma Copy Share Image
It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
