Contradiction Quotes - Page 26

• Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Enigma, Thick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.518, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Suicide, Distance, Eye

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999). “The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader”, p.5, University of Virginia Press

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• You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Falling In Love, Children

  "Fictional character: Professor Levy". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.

  Greg Graffin

  Christian, People, Challenges

  "Bad Religion Cut an Unlikely Christmas EP". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.rollingstone.com. November 28, 2013.

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• Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

  Terry Eagleton

  Brave, Adventurous, Finest

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• Downtown Cairo is at the center of the city, it is a place that has to be shared between different classes. It's a place where you see the bigger picture of the city's social fabric. It's also a place where you see all the contradictions of having all these layers, classes, and differences at the same time. And this is also where they clash, and where they negotiate. They negotiate their demands, their tastes, the lifestyles they want to have. So it's a very interesting space. I think that Downtown has maintained that identity before, during, and after the revolution.

  Tamer El Said

  Thinking, Interesting, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we suppress negative emotions, which we've been taught to be shameful of and hide, such as pain, anger, sorrow, and resentment. I take these complex and varied emotions surrounded by obscurity, absurdity, contradiction, and events out of our control such as tragedy, and project them in my work. So I understand that the images can generate fear, confusion, and anxiety in the audience, and if they're difficult to turn away from, it only means that my intention has been communicated.

  Hyon Gyon

  Hurt, Pain, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no? I'm more pulled to the human drama of shamans - their experience in society and identity struggles - than their transcendental power. Their drastic lives enable them to empathize with others and provide solace.

  Hyon Gyon

  Drama, Struggle, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book. I also put the characters in a cell, and it's three stories underground, rather than on the surface. The characters have one Istanbul, the other one is above ground. One is in dark, one is in light. That kind of contradiction - those opposite sides - creates a great energy in Istanbul.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Book, Character, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not interested in safety. A great risk in writing is imagining you have something to protect. Playing it safe to placate someone or something. People talk about compromise, but often people don't even know when they're compromising, because they're not conscious of contradictions.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, People, Safety

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• One major difference between Mormons and evangelicals on the subject of revelation is that Latter-day Saints believe that God has appointed modern-day prophets and apostles to receive revelation for Christ's church. All church members may receive revelation appropriate for their particular callings or positions within the church and their families, but never in contradiction to church doctrine or policy. So Mormonism has both a democratic practice of revelation that would resonate with evangelicals, but also an institutional understanding of revelation foreign to evangelicalism.

  John Turner

  Believe, Understanding, Church

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point of view. At the same time, you have to be so organized and so serious. There are two aspects that are quite big contradictions, strangely, in what I'm doing.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fashion, Strong, Artist

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• It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Desire, Levels, Gestures

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Children, Mean, Heaven

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• An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

  Graham Chapman

  Argument, Connected, Persons

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• She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Curiosity, World, Vibrancy

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• why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

  Marian Keyes

  Hurt, Moving, People

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.218, Penguin UK

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• I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Community, Membership

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• ‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.

  John Green

  Grateful, Water, Floating

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• Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.

  Paulo Coelho

  Growing Up, Get Well, Thinking

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• This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

  Stanislav Grof

  Perfect, Trying, World

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

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• We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

  R. C. Sproul

  Comfort, Mystery, Synonym

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• 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.

  Lev Grossman

  Strong, Weak, Easier

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.320, Penguin

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• There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

  Ayn Rand

  Checks, Premises, Ifs

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• I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

  Man Ray

  Real, Liberty, Doe

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