Contradiction Quotes - Page 6

I love that contradiction between the ugly and the nice. It's shot in a very gourmet way in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. But then Grenouille doesn't differentiate between what's commonly considered to be good smells and bad. He just takes it all, like a true collector does.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

"You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield."

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.

I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions.

I am a mass of contradictions.

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.