"Power is paradoxical."

--

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Power Quotes #Paradoxical Quotes

“I like having curves - I'm proud of them!”
“Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”
“Huddled around the fire of the alphabet...”

Source : Carole Maso (1997). “Aureole: An Erotic Sequence”, Ecco Press
“And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.”
“I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.”
“Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.”
“With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott (2012). “Scott's Last Expedition: Diaries, 26 November 1910 - 29 March 1912”, p.491, Amberley Publishing Limited
“If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.”

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