The government can build institutional infrastructure to address the paradox of floods and calamities in some parts of the country, and water… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“We only have one life (unless you’re a cat or a Buddhist) and it’s often dictated to us by what society tells… — Ellen Rowland Copy Share Image
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
“There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this paradox makes the emotional experience of female adolescence more… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect… — J. M. DeMatteis Copy Share Image
In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you… — John Brabender 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
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have… — Tomochichi Copy Share Image
“It’s a terrible paradox that we march toward a virtual Eden when there is still time to reverse pollution and find it… — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
“The paradox of identity liberalism is that it paralyzes the capacity to think and act in a way that would actually accomplish… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Life's a paradox. What you want, you don't get; what you get, you don't enjoy; what you enjoy isn't permanent; what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“He was a paradox, a walking contradiction. How he could perform such a violent act without hesitation in one moment and be… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Yeah but Father, is that what you meant by God being a paradox? How he was so pleased to get a chance… — John Sladek Copy Share Image