53 Contradictory Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Every Several Purpose Purposes Contradictory Often Different Which Might Even Novelist

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. James Q. Wilson

You Struggle Peace People Problem Result Some People Power Separation Aims Complex System Would Some Pursue Parliamentary Had Powers Empower Contradictory Different Different People Many Suggest Treaties

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another. Jocko Willink

Leadership Freedom Discipline Opposing Extreme Must Finding Seemingly Between Qualities Balanced Forces Another Equilibrium Dichotomy Contradictory Just Requires Many

My father was a very contradictory man. John Malkovich

Man Father Very Contradictory

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity. John Piper

God Other Approval Ways Complexity Out Willing Wills Case Delighting Delights He Disapproval Without Making Am Contradictory Infinite Being Different Each Different Ways Coexist Things Levels Here

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality. Justin Cronin

People Personality Think Way One Of The Things Constantly Inside About Writer Contradictions Contradictory Human Information Which Full Human Personality Things

My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage. Kangana Ranaut

Work Hard Work You Marriage Parents Other Easier See Having Dating Takes Divorces Subject Hand Friends Very Contradictory While Successful Your Hard Views Early

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

People Accept Very Contradictory Quite Just Hard

The argument by the anti-gay-marriage crowd is so absurd, so internally contradictory, and so awash in unproven assertions that it is difficult to take it as anything more than a construct cobbled together by people who just don't like those people. Kurt Eichenwald

Together People Argument Difficult Those More Construct Crowd Take Absurd Like Contradictory Than Just Anything Who Cobbled

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity. Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

War Hope Religion Together World Tears Guilt Faithful Whatever Doubt Community Our Complex Our World Both Through Shared Generosity Exclusion Also Force Comfort Around However Contradictory Often Apart Them Creates Belief Fosters Unites Societies Brings

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

Genius Indeed Would Qualities Understand Contradictory Mozart

The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time. Matthew Pearl

Time History Long Long Time Ranked Prestige Only Poetry Consumers Mainly Read Limited Narrative Always Were Been Contradictory Essay Literacy Form Literate Newly Who Novel Originally Here Below