Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which… — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“If the great paradox of Christianity means anything it means this- that we must take the crown in our hands, and go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness.… — Peter Russell Copy Share Image
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
“If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom of paradox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
“Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
“It's all about the "French Paradox," that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
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