Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves” — Lady Grey Copy Share Image
“Only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. — Harold Evans 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
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
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
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
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
There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious-… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a… — Nate Kaeding Copy Share Image
