Contraries And Contradictories Quotes & Sayings

I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games. — Heather Mills

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king. — Timothy Keller

Life is settled and I'm enjoying it. — Charlie Adam

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's. — William Penn

I do not envy those who live a comfortable life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving. — Orlando Bloom

In principle, I am against principles. — Tristan Tzara

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. — Mark Twain

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks. — John O. Brennan

A horse leaves footprints, even on this ground. If we find them, we'll know for a fact he was there. If not ... well, these are days to make a man think he's seeing things. — Robert Jordan

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. — Ethel Waters

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself. — Willa Cather

To be honest, I rewrote 'Wicked Nights' a number of times. I just wasn't happy with the end result. — Gena Showalter

The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.'
The outcome of the current crisis is already determined. — Nick Flynn

Humanity is not an aggregate of individuals, a community of thinkers, each of whom is guaranteed from the outset to be able to reach agreement with the others because all participate in the same thinking essence. Nor, of course, is it a single Being in which the multiplicity of individuals are dissolved and into which these individuals are destined to be reabsorbed. As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions. Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful (which is not in dispute here) but also when it comes to happiness. — Maurice Merleau Ponty