As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical.… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I have no expertise of other religious traditions so I'm not going to opine on them, but in Islam the more you… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling.… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an… — David Antin Copy Share Image
“As paradoxical as it sounds: The best way to shield yourself from nasty surprises is to anticipate them.” — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game — Louise Bates Ames Copy Share Image
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
