Contradictory Quotes

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God's arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally realized I don't have to explained or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.