Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
“Parks herself seemed aware of this paradox, calling her autobiography Quiet Strength—a title that challenges us to question our assumptions. Why shouldn’t… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to… — C. R. Strahan Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
“To survive in most arenas of power you must first understand that everyone lies, everyone cheats, and no one is your friend.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically… — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“God an all-powerful being who knows the beginning and ending of all things created an angel knowing fully well that the angel… — N.K. Aning Copy Share Image
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Yes, and you’ve never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That’s your problem. You live and breathe paradox… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little kid, there was something about change that scared me so much, but, at the same time,… — MO Copy Share Image
“There’s a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn’t… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“grip of Paradox. A predatory bird with a great sharp beak and vicious talons—Paradox. To be in its grip is to suffer,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I had always been troubled by the liberal paradox of wanting everyone to be treated the same, while at the same time… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Mr. Chan," Grace said as the wind whipped strands of her hair across her face. "What are you doing here?" She shouted… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
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