61 Contradiction Quotes for You to Enjoy

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like. Eddie Alvarez

Business About Something Like Knowing Sport Looks Contradiction Just Really Aspect

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. Elia Kazan

Fear Simply Spoke Self-Doubt Without Contradiction Did Suffer

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction. Glennon Doyle Melton

Girl Big Become Small Voice Contradiction Quiet Successful Inherent Humans

I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. Herbert Read

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I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation. J. M. G. Le Clezio

Me Fight Better Evil Religious Morals Only Civilisation Fed Generations Between Abuse Idealistic Most Because Understand Contradiction Than Did Modern Maybe Against Root Europe Away Slaves Two Need

Good morning is a contradiction of terms. Jim Davis

Good Morning Good Morning Terms Contradiction

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. Jim Jarmusch

Philosophy Kind Embraced Something Like Contradiction Really

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith. Joe Carnahan

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle. Joko Beck

Life Time Nature Looking Finding Rather Misery Puzzle Boundless Answer Caught Limitless Causes Perplexing Lot Contradiction Begin Same Same Time Being Which Us Aware

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. Jonathan Mayhew

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible. Julian Baggini

American political scions evoke a central contradiction in our thinking. We believe - or say we do - in nurture, not nature. Yet we are comforted by the aristocratic notion that leadership might run in the bloodlines. Michael Beschloss

Leadership Nature Political Nurture Believe Thinking Our Say Evoke Run Aristocratic Comforted Contradiction American Central Might Notion

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' Michel Gondry

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection. Paul Merton

Good You People Young Sense Way Laugh Seems Good Way Instant Performer Like Make Because Does Making Friends Contradiction Person Who Connection Actually Shy Shy Person

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. Paul Ricoeur

Death Hope Living Sign Cross Insofar Resurrection Contradiction Proceeds Placed

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors. Pieter Zeeman

Me Light Out Spirit Mirrors Magnetic Investigation Simply Idea Forces Came Source Discovered Effect Reflected Contradiction Exposed

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction. Rebecca MacKinnon

Confusion Internet Will Long Only Global Contradiction Agenda Successful Reigns

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. Roger Nash Baldwin

Life Freedom Liberty Christian Our Individual Individual Freedom Ideals Democratic Principle Cherished Contradiction Regard Flat Teaching Conscription

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. Sally Schneider

Book About Write Spontaneous Terms Partly Contradiction Improvisation Moment

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