Popular Paradox Quotes & Sayings

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics! — Wolfgang Pauli

What you loved and what you strove for,
What you dreamed and what you lived through,
Do you know if it was joy or suffering?
G sharp and A flat, E flat or D sharp,
Are they distinguishable to the ear? — Hermann Hesse

I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be. — Hillary Clinton

Judge tenderly of me. — Emily Dickinson

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own. — William Shakespeare

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense. — Washington Irving

When we have public success we also have private struggles. — Deion Sanders

Falling in love. A strange phrase, so common as to be nearly useless, a kind of semantic saturation on a cultural level. It was only when you felt yourself falling in love and thought about how that felt and what it meant that the phrase took on meaning, letting you really comprehend the accuracy of the description. — Jasinda Wilder

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra

I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets. — Robert Wilson

The Web is the new book though, innit? — Karl Pilkington

It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it. — Geneen Roth

Normality is the new eccentric. — Criss Jami

the early 1980s, the A&W fast-food restaurant chain introduced a burger with a third of a pound of beef to compete with McDonald's popular quarter pounder. Although most customers preferred A&W's new burger in taste tests, it was a big disappointment in the marketplace. When focus groups were run to get to the bottom of this paradox, A&W discovered that many customers thought a burger with one-third of a pound of beef was less generous than one with one-quarter of a pound. Customers were attending to the denominator, just not very intelligently: The smaller "3" led many to conclude that one-third is smaller than one-quarter!21 — Thomas Gilovich