I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big… — Katerina Graham Copy Share Image
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
“What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“I'm no one... I don't want to be anyone. I stepped into singularity to exist within a void. I'm no one... However,… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“We show our surprise at this by speaking of something called the “French paradox,” for how could a people who eat such… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western… — Richard Layard, Baron Layard Copy Share Image
“The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied… — Julian Barnes 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
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“So I shut up and hold out a one-pound note, but he throws it on the ground, snatches back both pieces of… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“As Carl Rogers, one of the founders of humanistic psychology, once noted: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as… — William Ury Copy Share Image
One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
