Contradiction Quotes - Page 7

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

The world is full of contradiction.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.