Contradictory famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
-- Edwin Meese -
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
-- George Eliot -
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
-- Ivan Doig -
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
-- John Fowles -
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.
-- Jonathan Franzen -
Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.
-- Julie Delpy -
It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
-- Kenneth Branagh -
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
-- Lukas Foss -
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
-- Madeleine M. Kunin -
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.
-- Mikhail Bakhtin -
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
-- Nigella Lawson -
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
-- Robert De Niro -
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
-- Shirley Manson -
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
-- Sydney Schanberg -
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
-- Tom Robbins -
We have an extremely cordial relationship with Donald Trump. Sometimes, we have contradictory views but sometimes we agree. I won't stop working together with him.
-- Emmanuel Macron -
I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.
-- Faris Badwan -
I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.
-- Phoebe Waller-Bridge -
I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.
-- Sophie -
We are fascinated by the club and the dancefloor; we are also fascinated by very nuanced sonic experiences, and somehow we are convinced that we can bring together these two contradictory forces and create some kind of sonic supernova. This would be the candle that has always been at the center of our project.
-- Thomas Koner -
It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.
-- Bill Henson -
Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.
-- Richard Overy
