Top 20 Making Contradictions Quotes
#1. I'm a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
Angela Davis
#2. But in all truth, it didn't matter, not even a little bit. It was just one more of the dozens of dopey contradictions making up the many-sided mess that was humanity, and all things considered, it was much less interesting than thinking about what Rita might have cooked for dinner.
Jeff Lindsay
#3. Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
Voltaire
#4. It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
Joseph Conrad
#5. I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.
Eric Bristow
#6. I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
Joan Didion
#8. Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
Henry Ward Beecher
#9. Truth is not always about pragmatic problem solving and making things "work," but about reconciling contradictions. Just because something might have some dire effects does not mean it is not true or even good. Just because something pleases people does not make it true either.
Richard Rohr
#10. Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
Ira Sachs
#11. Life's not easier for any of us. The best we can do is choose to get through it with the right people.
Lauren Layne
#12. There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.
Madeleine L'Engle
#13. Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
Taisen Deshimaru
#14. There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.
Monica Bellucci
#15. Every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns
Billy Joel
#17. The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?"
"Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation!"
"I guess that explains their rich military history, then.
Howard Tayler
#18. We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.
Arwa Damon
#19. When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
