Oxymoron Quotes - Page 2

• In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

  Christian Bale

  Romantic, Doubt, Comedy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.tv.com.

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• Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

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• A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

  Banksy

  Independent, People, Use

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  "Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes".

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• We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, History, Funny Oxymoron

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• Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Science, Men

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• Why don't you pair'em up in threes?

  Yogi Berra

  Ems, Pairs, Funny Oxymoron

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• I never said most of the things I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Witty

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Dying, Dull, Scene

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.

  Donald Trump

  Unlimited, Funny Oxymoron, Budgets

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• Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humorous, Sleep

  "Fictional character: The Great Man". "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break", www.imdb.com. October 10, 1941.

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• I never liked you, and I always will.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny Oxymoron

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Posts, Reporters, Investigators

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• I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

  Harold Bloom

  Successful, Therapy

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• The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

  Johnny Depp

  Party, Airplane, Actors

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• If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sex, Used, Older Women

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mother, Feminist, Parent

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• I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

  Barbara Park

  Children, Perfect, Term

  "Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?" by Anna Jane Grossman, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2007.

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• I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren and the quality of service to those who are catching hell. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say America has had great moments, but I wouldn't call it a great nation. I don't think there have been any great nations in the history of the world, because in every nation you find poor people being subjugated. So, I see the term "great nation" as a contradiction, as an oxymoron.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Believe, Greatness

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• An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Believe, Goal, Enabling

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

  Joan Rivers

  Sense Of Humor

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• So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'

  Jane Pratt

  Teenager, Sassy, Critics

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• Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

  Michael Kinsley

  Mean, Science, Air

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• The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.

  Robert Dickson Crane

  Real, Practice, Political

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