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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else. — Pankaj Mishra

Is this a Kurdish thing?'
'What?'
'Being deliberately contradictory? — Ian McDonald

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. — John Fowles

Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion. — Kiran Desai

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

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner. — Judith Lewis Herman

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate. — Tom Robbins

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory. — Howard Zinn

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul. — Virchand Gandhi

All the seemingly loose threads and contradictory claims of the rest of the Bible come together in Jesus. — Timothy J. Keller

The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory ... and is challenged by such irregularities. — Frank X. Barron

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world. — T. B. Joshua

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas. — Max Planck

Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides ... so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides. — Theodore Roosevelt

FAKE Mask... - That's when we are honest... or probably not...

More likely contradictory!

(FACEBOOK = MASK) — Deyth Banger

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. — Irwin Shaw

Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping — Nicholas Sparks

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man. — Salvador Dali

While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

It is perfectly possible to believe two contradictory things at one and the same time - that is one of the brilliant faculties of the human mind. — Simon Mawer

Truths can be wholly contradictory, the blackest black and the whitest white at the same time. — Nadia Hashimi

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain. — John Gresham Machen

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly. — Lee Daniels

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism. — Sydney Schanberg

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. — Jeffrey Deitch

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are. — Eamon Duffy

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out. — Emile M. Cioran

I like characters who are contradictory. — David Bergen

Watch for contradictory information (page 37). — James Morrison

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole. — Danielle LaPorte

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect. — Edwin Meese

Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace. — Alaric Hutchinson

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. — Robert De Niro

Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states. — Hannah Arendt

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. — Timothy Radcliffe

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. — Leonard Bernstein

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common". — Robert A. Heinlein

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. — Ayn Rand

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection — Plato

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity. — Madeleine M. Kunin

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth. — Frans De Waal

To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code.... — Deyth Banger

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory. — Bill Ayers

The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one. — George Seldes

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy. — Norman Mailer

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned. — Sara Sheridan

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. — Pat Conroy

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. — Lukas Foss

Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together. — David Kessler

Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic? — Christopher Brookmyre

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory. — Alfred Jarry

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him. — Germaine Greer

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory! — Georgette Heyer

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I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. — Shirley Manson

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me. — Julie Delpy

Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory. — Peter Enns

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life. — Adam Rayner

I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors. — Richard Ayoade

The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture. — Czeslaw Milosz

Little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all. — Robert Greene

Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory. — R.C. Sproul

If you have a pair of contradictory ideas, discuss all the possible consequences with your peers. — Eraldo Banovac

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. — Donna J. Haraway

A politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence — Reginald Hill

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. — Tom Robbins

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming ... — Charles Foster Johnson

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being. — Julia Alvarez

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. — Charles De Gaulle

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. — Carl Von Clausewitz

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. — Kenneth Branagh

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory. — Osho

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. — George Eliot

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell. — James A. Michener

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. — Halton Arp

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us. — Annie Lennox

Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen — Kathleen Collins

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. — Lukas Foss

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. — David Antin

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes. — Jamie Lee Curtis

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life — Salvador Dali

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile. — Anne Hathaway

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces. — Rem Koolhaas

Life itself is contradictory. Only death is consistent. — Vera Caspary

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. — Eckhart Tolle

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory. — Ivan Doig

I backed away from his flash, my relationship with cameras contradictory at best, schizophrenic at worst. — Anne McAneny

Feelings are a funny thing, he realized. They're always more tangled and contradictory and complex than we want them to be. Than we care to admit. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things, — Celeste Ng

Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage. — Diana Gabaldon

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. — Anne Rice

I don't think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it's not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype. — Shirley Manson

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together ... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. — William Wordsworth

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. — George Orwell

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character. — Richard Overy