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
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility… — David Cronenberg 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
That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems… — William O'Neil Copy Share Image
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very… — Ice T Copy Share Image
“Joshua to Angela: "Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun." She looked at him… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
“... the Gen Y paradox: an entire generation of employees with the attitude that they know how to communicate with anybody, anytime,… — Bill Jensen Copy Share Image
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Unless you admit it to yourself, that you don’t know what is going on, will you experience what is going on. The… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to… — Steven James 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… — Laura Hillenbrand 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke 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 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
“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
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
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
'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 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
Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image