Contradiction Quote by George Santayana

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

— Michel de Montaigne

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we…

— Robert White

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

— George Santayana

“Mockery is childish, Beatrice,' She says. 'It does not become you'. 'Mockery is childish, Beatric,' I repeat in my best imitation of her voice.…

— Veronica Roth

“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so…

— Caitlin Crews

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

— E. F. Schumacher

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of…

— Adolf Hitler

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.

— Terry Jones

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning