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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
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
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
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
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
Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.
— Sam Owen
What you have not doneis 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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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