Paradoxically Speaking Quotes

#1. To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#2. Perry, Jeremy, Man, Just knowing that you guys look up to me, And I can help you out so much, I could pull you to the side when we're working out. And just as much as you think I'm making you better, You elevate my game.

Kevin Durant

#3. So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

Nancy Horan

#4. Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

Joel C. Rosenberg

#5. Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

Clint Eastwood

#6. What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

Mirra Komarovsky

#7. Because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

Pope Francis

#8. Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.

John C. Maxwell

#9. If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

Joan Sutherland

#10. We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

Malcolm Wallop

#11. Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

Mark Twain

#12. Get focused on arranging to survive so that we can do more than just get batted around by crazy people, desperate people, thugs, and leaders who don't know what they're doing!" She

Octavia E. Butler

#13. There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

Dave Grohl

#14. I don't want to die while I still have beautiful reasons to die for.

Amit Abraham

#15. I listen to a lot of Tibetan music before I sleep. I'll just type in 'Tibetan meditation music' on YouTube, and within 15 minutes, it knocks me out. I sleep like a baby.

Michelle Phan

#16. Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight

Sarah McLachlan