“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I’d say that most of these [poems in Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP] are just straightforward enough, but not entirely… — Sage Cohen Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“He desired her vaguely but without conviction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources;… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Salman is a paradox. He has this image of a moody actor who turns up late for shoots or doesn't turn up… — Asin Copy Share Image
If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox.… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
“Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Richard P Feynman was fascinated by the Moon; he tried in earnest to see the Moon. But science could only see the… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
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Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world,… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes… — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
“He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Many Republicans who traditionally were for a positive role in the world, anti-Russian, now they want to defend their party and leader,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We… — Bob Moorehead Copy Share Image
“Women were such a strange but captivating paradox he thought, you wanted to love them and make them happy yet somehow, sometimes… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... You can't… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not… — Michael Michalko Copy Share Image
“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
![“I’d say that most of these [poems in Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP] are just straightforward enough, but not entirely explainable or attributable to a single cause/effect, which makes them the kind of poems I want to read many times… “Salty as a lip” is my favorite. It’s so alive: strange and…” quote by Sage Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/sage-cohen-90776_books_i-d-say-that-most-of-these-poems-in-jaso_2267450.jpg)
