Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
“It is a paradox, then, that while we insist on the sovereignty of individual choice in all that we do and buy… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
“We show our surprise at this by speaking of something called the “French paradox,” for how could a people who eat such… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Angel of Death took the woman's frail hand. "Don't be afraid." she said. "Life is your past. Death, on the other… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
“In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Lately I’ve had to redefine the word “knowledge” to a knowledge that cannot know anything. I’m dealing not in careless absurdities here… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Ah, yes, the trusty time paradox . If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, then shall I cease to… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a… — Michio Kaku 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer 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
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
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
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image