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Life plays a role of oxymoron. You can't predict the actual sense of it unless you feel it. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Knowledge management is a great oxymoron. — Thomas Petzinger

The reality is a reality check is an oxymoron — Tom Schafer

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron — John Paul Warren

Fun math is an oxymoron. — Kiera Cass

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. — Gail Sheehy

An idle genius is an oxymoron. — James Thornton

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' — Johnny Depp

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. — George Will

Tell them to stand closer apart. — Samuel Goldwyn

Servant Leadership is an oxymoron. All true Leadership is servanthood. — Todd Stocker

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron. — Joe Pantoliano

It's, like, a safety bomb."
-Iggy — James Patterson

mandating innovation is an oxymoron, maybe not as absurd as "scheduling spontaneity," but perilously close. I — Eric Weiner

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron. — Barbara Park

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron. — Joan Rivers

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. — Eliza Dushku

A Bible-quoting erotica writer--you are quite the oxymoron. — Tiffany Reisz

Is it just me or do they put the MORON in OXYMORON? — Melissa Cutler

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance. — Lois Greiman

Pushy bottom--that's a bit of a stereotype."

"A Dom who isn't pushing--that's a bit of an oxymoron," Stunt challenged him. — Lyn Gala

In a society ...
so madly in love with oxymoron's ...
ask yourself this ...
... when was the last time you ever bought anything for free? — Non Nomen

Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?'
'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?'
'An oxymormon. — David Ebershoff

Why don't you pair'em up in threes? — Yogi Berra

Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history. — James Patterson

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below. — Madeleine Albright

The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it. — Donald Trump

An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford? — Johnny Carson

If something is unbearable, then how do you bear it? It's an oxymoron. And yet I was here, wasn't I? Somehow I was bearing it. — Paula Garner

Dying isn't the only way into the Underworld, but it's the safest.
Well, that sounded like an oxymoron if I'd ever heard one. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. — Paul Fussell

Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology. — Jeremy Rifkin

Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron! — David Nicholls

And there's no figuring out the unknowable. And there's some kind of oxymoron in that that's more moron than anything else. — Sarah Mussi

- activity holidays are a whatsit. Contradiction in terms."
"Oxymoron."
I flipped him a finger. "Same to you with knobs on. — J.L. Merrow

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973. — Jon Stewart

If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave. — Gerald R. Ford

Fresh ideas from this group was virtually an oxymoron, Marlys thought, wriggling her butt against the comfortless chair. — John Sandford

Delhi: This place is inself an oxymoron. — Parul Wadhwa

It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated. — Elizabeth Cruickshank

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. — Banksy

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused.
Fang tried to play innocent
but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work. — James Patterson

Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily. — Peter F. Hamilton

The Term "a Criminal Lawyer" Is the Opposite of an Oxymoron — Carsten Stroud

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did. — Nouriel Roubini

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. — Peter Kreeft

Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman

Wearing: shorts + a jersey = a visual oxymoron. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists. — Thom S. Rainer

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron. — Judith Plaskow

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen. — Gustave De Molinari

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

Cultural purity is an oxymoron (Saunders just quoted this). — Doug Saunders

Subtly but definitively? Isn't that an oxymoron, you moron? — Lauren Gallagher

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett

The phrase "a little genetic test" strikes me as an oxymoron. — Veronica Roth

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving. — Jamie Wyeth

That's when I realize that if anyone's an oxymoron, it's me. Or maybe it's anyone who claims to follow Jesus. — Rachel Held Evans

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim." — Hendrik Hertzberg

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard

You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake. — Michael Bassey Johnson

To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron's I can think of. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself. — Elena Ferrante

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you. — Pat Roberts

Why do people always say change is the only constant? It so sounds Oxymoron — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore. — Martha Plimpton

A cautious creative is an oxymoron. — George Lois

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. — George Will

Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact. — Edward I. Koch

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. — Harold Bloom

Bad leadership is an oxymoron. — Joseph C. Rost

An honest politician is an oxymoron. — Mark Twain