Contradiction Quotes

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
Robert Plant

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Fidel Castro

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Janis Joplin

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.
Meg Ryan

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
Shania Twain

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. Bradley

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige

Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
Chris Rock

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
Chris Rock

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong

A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here
Deepak Chopra

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Mencius

I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.
Calvin Klein

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
Henry Rollins

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
Cary Grant

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
Cat Stevens

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
Terry Pratchett

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Communism is like one big phone company.
Lenny Bruce

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh

No sense makes sense.
Charles Manson

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Gilda Radner

Our theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr