Contradictory Quotes - Page 2

• As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

  Georgette Heyer

  Temptation, Promise, Wish

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• I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Cold Hearted, Serious, Paradox

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• I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

  Tupac Shakur

  Romantic, Greatness, Rapper

  Song: The Eternal Lament

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• I can be as contrary as I choose.

  Julian Fellowes

  Choices, Novelists, Contrary

  "Downton Abbey (Episode 2.4)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010-2015.

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• Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Heart, Two

  "Baudelaire: a self portrait".

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• Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Uncertain

  On War (1832). Not just in war.

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

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Accepting, Hard

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

  Shirley Manson

  Weather, Mood, Mess

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• Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Thinking, Religion, Journalism

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• To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Humility, Two

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• Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Novelists, Different

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

  Lukas Foss

  Quality, Genius

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• The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

  Charles Handy

  Strong, Business, Men

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, p.90, Harvard Business Press

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• The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

  Simone Weil

  Order, Two, Humanity

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Order, Uprising, Revolution

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• 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.

  John Malkovich

  Father, Men

  "A multitude of Malkovich" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Reality, Self, Atheism

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, People, Complementary

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• Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

  T. B. Joshua

  Taken, World, Steps

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• Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Often Is, Desire, Contradiction

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• Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

  Benny Hinn

  God, May, Way

  "Exclusive interview with Benny Hinn". Interview with Joseph Knoll, www.freerepublic.com. September 06, 2007.

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• The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

  John Kao

  Ideas, Two, Mark

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

  Rajneesh

  Desire, Misery, Contradiction

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

  George Eliot

  Soul, Opinion, Sentiments

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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