Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages. — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I… — Geena Rocero Copy Share Image
From the moment he took the oath of office in 1993 until he left the White House in 2001, Bill Clinton was… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
“We're here to keep you in one piece, if you ignore us, you're quite likely to end up in two pieces, or… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes.… — Asahel Nettleton Copy Share Image
“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of… — Bob Hamilton Copy Share Image
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“Each time they meet, they have more to discuss, and so they talk, quietly revealing themselves with and without language, their eyes… — Karen Connelly Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“My journey toward liberation is both unique to me, and the same as yours. And I am learning to peacefully rest in… — Søren Sørenson Copy Share Image
If you don't risk anything, you gain nothing. When you gain nothing, you risk even more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. — Rumi Copy Share Image
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Paradox...Rich in natural resources but poor in the quality of our human resource” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place… — Alexander Pushkin 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
“This is the paradox: it is against the law to defraud some one but legal, and highly lucrative, to defraud every one.” — Wes Henricksen Copy Share Image
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am not old, I am not young, I'm possibilities unsung. I am paradox made flesh, heartbeat born of cosmic hum.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism. — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
“you are a war the border between two countries the collateral damage the paradox that joins the two but also splits them… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image