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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. — Elia Kazan

You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in half. — Mary-Jean Harris

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions. — Rajneesh

I see no contradiction between my search and personal happiness. -BRIDA — Paulo Coelho

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption — John Lancaster Spalding

Cowardice is the fear of contradiction. — Marty Rubin

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being — Sergei Eisenstein

You're doing great,' she said. 'You're in Birmingham .' Scullion wanted to say this was a contradiction in terms but he couldn't speak. — Andrew O'Hagan

I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction. — Blakney Francis

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a contradiction in terms — Kurt Vonnegut

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions. — James Lileks

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can. — Thomas Merton

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Good morning is a contradiction of terms. — Jim Davis

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known. — Donald Kingsbury

Contradiction is what keeps sanity in place. — Flaubert Gustav Flaubert

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction. — Alastair Bruce

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. — G.K. Chesterton

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ... — Muriel Spark

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity. — Jody Dean

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me. — Dee Dee Ramone

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger. — V. K. Krishna Menon

All concord's born of contraries. — Ben Jonson

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. — Elie Wiesel

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. — Max Beerbohm

Self-contradiction is the most fruitful kind of contradiction. — Marty Rubin

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. — Ayn Rand

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life. — Ade Santi

He's a man shrouded in mystery and contradiction. — J.C. Reed

Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings. — Sam Owen

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. — Mason Cooley

What you have not done
is without error. What you
have not said is beyond contradiction. — Michael Chitwood

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America. — Hubert H. Humphrey

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. — Roland Barthes

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. — G. Campbell Morgan

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. — Harper Lee

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil. — Stephen Charnock

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself. — Erich Fromm

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. — Clive Barker

I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time. — Charles Kennedy

Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion. — Joan Miro

Woman's at best a contradiction still. — Alexander Pope

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out. — Charlotte Eriksson

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures — Carl Braaten

Power of a stallion, and the innocence of a foal... — Holly Bodger

He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use. Leniency. Kindness. Contradiction. Forbearance. — Nina George

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being. — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time. — Swami Vivekananda

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world. — Mother Teresa

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. — Simone Weil

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83 — Frederick Buechner

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over. — Remy De Gourmont

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms. — Aldous Huxley

In the contradiction lies the hope. — Bertolt Brecht

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms. — Richie Benaud

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that. — Gwen Stefani

It is a contradiction this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall. — Robert McCammon

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms. — Indro Montanelli

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist. — Amish Tripathi

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. — James Martineau

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. — Arthur Miller

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one ... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that. — Assata Shakur

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. — Kedar Joshi

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. — Czeslaw Milosz

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships. — Amy Dickinson

It must be obvious ... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. — Shunryu Suzuki

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away. — Paul Schrader

Life is not a series of events charged with elements of contrast, contradiction, or surprise. It is a deep, coherent, and unfaltering process. — Percy C. Ainsworth

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. — Groucho Marx

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. — John Gay

There is no contradiction between true religion and science — Abdu'l- Baha

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

By its durability this settlement proved that conservative liberty is an oxymoron, not a contradiction in terms. — Timothy C.W. Blanning

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I — Naomi Novik

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms. — Janette Rallison

How absurd human beings are and how magnificent. — Benjamin Zander

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. — David Harvey

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave. — Trudi Canavan

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. — Jim Jarmusch

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. — George Santayana

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms. — Edgar Allan Poe

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction. — G. Willow Wilson

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor. — David Brion Davis

I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions ... — Naomi Watts

Isn't everyone's life a mass of contradictions? — Noah Feldman

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. — Italo Svevo

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. — Albert Camus

Life is a contradiction. Minimalism and in its simplicity opens the door to complicated analysis not just to dust free spaces. — Rohan Chalmers

I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated. — Yasmine Al Masri

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms. — Rick Warren