Top 100 Oxymoron Quotes
#2. For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.
A.W. Tozer
#5. The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember.
Bruce Schneier
#6. Fresh ideas from this group was virtually an oxymoron, Marlys thought, wriggling her butt against the comfortless chair.
John Sandford
#7. You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don't invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron.
Mohnish Pabrai
#8. I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.
Paul Krassner
#9. The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
George Will
#11. A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
Hendrik Hertzberg
#12. The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.
Thom S. Rainer
#14. The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
Wilson Follett
#15. What is conditional love?
Conditional love is an oxymoron.
Conditional love is an imposter of love.
Conditional love is something other than love,
because you cannot conditionalize the un-conditional.
Donald L. Hicks
#16. The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.
Peter Campbell
#18. 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
#19. Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
Gail Sheehy
#20. The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.
Jack McDevitt
#21. Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.
Jeremy Rifkin
#22. The phrase "a little genetic test" strikes me as an oxymoron.
Veronica Roth
#23. Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.
Lois Greiman
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.
Joan Rivers
#28. Servant Leadership is an oxymoron. All true Leadership is servanthood.
Todd Stocker
#29. 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
#30. The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
George Will
#32. Is it just me or do they put the MORON in OXYMORON?
Melissa Cutler
#33. 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
#34. Life plays a role of oxymoron. You can't predict the actual sense of it unless you feel it.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#35. Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily.
Peter F. Hamilton
#36. mandating innovation is an oxymoron, maybe not as absurd as "scheduling spontaneity," but perilously close. I
Eric Weiner
#37. Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?'
'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?'
'An oxymormon.
David Ebershoff
#38. An honest politician is an oxymoron.
Mark Twain
#39. Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more.
Donna Tartt
#40. I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
Jane Smiley
#41. There's a FEW THINGS you need to get STRAIGHT about being GAY..."
"That's an OXYmoron."
"You'll be an OXYmoron if you don't listen. GAY men SUCK and FUCK. They don't go around falling in LOVE. At least not with every TOM, DICK and HARRY.
Giorge Leedy
#42. 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
#43. Dante thought a state of eternal, rapturous contemplation, and few have proffered more specifics than that. Post-redemption theology seems an oxymoron.
Terryl L. Givens
#44. Cultural purity is an oxymoron (Saunders just quoted this).
Doug Saunders
#45. And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
Patricia Clarkson
#46. Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.
Leviak B. Kelly
#47. A Bible-quoting erotica writer--you are quite the oxymoron.
Tiffany Reisz
#48. The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.
Kelis
#49. 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
#50. I'm a city boy by nature - that's a big-ass oxymoron - but I do appreciate nature to the fullest because they say if you wanna see God just look around. We can't make this, it's all creation, so I appreciate that.
Chali 2na
#51. In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
Christian Bale
#52. I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
Harold Bloom
#53. I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
John Perry Barlow
#54. The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
Johnny Depp
#55. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.
Peter Thiel
#56. 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
#57. Subtly but definitively? Isn't that an oxymoron, you moron?
Lauren Gallagher
#58. 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
#59. Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
Walter Darby Bannard
#60. As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.
Francis Chan
#61. - activity holidays are a whatsit. Contradiction in terms."
"Oxymoron."
I flipped him a finger. "Same to you with knobs on.
J.L. Merrow
#62. 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
#63. By its durability this settlement proved that conservative liberty is an oxymoron, not a contradiction in terms.
Timothy C.W. Blanning
#64. 'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.
Monica Johnson
#65. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.
Jon Stewart
#66. Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
John C. Maxwell
#67. Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.
Mariella Frostrup
#68. First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Pat Roberts
#69. I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
Chris Cuomo
#70. For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
Etgar Keret
#72. A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other, is just an oxymoron.
David Suzuki
#73. 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
#74. An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
Johnny Carson
#75. Why do people always say change is the only constant? It so sounds Oxymoron
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#76. To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
Jamie Wyeth
#78. See, it's just a matter of looking at the lines and doing the math." "Ugh, more math. I do enough of that as it is." He laughed. "But this is fun math." "Fun math is an oxymoron." Kile
Kiera Cass
#79. I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
Joe Pantoliano
#80. I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
Barbara Park
#82. Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.
Michael Kinsley
#83. The reality is a reality check is an oxymoron
Tom Schafer
#84. Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
Martha Plimpton
#85. In a sane world, a term like "chronic crisis" would be instantly seen by anone as an oxymoron. Nevertheless, that's the state that many of us Western Worlders live in, provoking crisis after crisis so that we can justify our dis-ease rather than addressing that directly.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#86. No Muslim is a terrorist. The moment they become terrorists, they are not Muslims anymore, whatever they call themselves. A ' Muslim terrorist' is an oxymoron.
M. T. Panchal
#87. I took the stairs two at a time. There's a time for decorum and a time to run like a crazed vorpal's after you, except a crazed vorpal's an oxymoron. This was the time to run.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#88. For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
Judith Plaskow
#89. Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.
Russell Smith
#90. Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
Ellen Goodman
#91. The Term "a Criminal Lawyer" Is the Opposite of an Oxymoron
Carsten Stroud
#92. 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
#93. A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
Banksy
#94. The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.
Donald Trump
#95. Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
Peter Kreeft
#98. Why don't you pair'em up in threes?
Yogi Berra
#99. Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.
Edward I. Koch
#100. Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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