Contradictories Quotes & Sayings

As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking. — Francis Fukuyama

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker. — Gerry Spence

The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise. — Charlyne Yi

What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can. — E'yen A. Gardner

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism. — Sigmund Freud

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories — George Eliot

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere. — John Green

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories. — Simone Weil

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition. — John Eliot