Seemingly Contradictory Quotes

#1. A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#2. It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

Daniel Libeskind

#3. Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

Gary Wolf

#4. I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

Richard Ayoade

#5. Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

Rem Koolhaas

#6. Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt.

John Piper

#7. It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.

Lady Gaga

#8. Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

Muhammad Ali

#9. The music instructor. He taught a course in what was wrong with Southern church music. He was from New Jersey, said Herbert.

Harper Lee

#10. They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

Neil Tennant

#11. His jaw was tensed, but it was no longer the frightening expression he had in the cafeteria. He seemed sad. The deep, hopeless kind.

Jamie McGuire

#12. I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

Claude Monet

#13. [Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.

Matt Groening

#14. I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It's in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.

Mark Lawrence

#15. What is far is very close, and what is close is very far

Fola

#16. To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#17. They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

#18. Wow, I do have all day and I get to choose.

Mary Morrissey

#19. All the seemingly loose threads and contradictory claims of the rest of the Bible come together in Jesus.

Timothy J. Keller

#20. I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

Andre Breton

#21. The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good ... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

Emily Martin

#22. We are so used to looking at the world from the point of view of living things that we cannot understand what it means not to be alive, and yet most of the time the world had nothing alive on it. And in most places in the universe today there probably is nothing alive.

Richard Feynman

#23. When catastrophe strikes, we look for a signal in the noise - anything that might explain the chaos that we see all around us and bring order to the world again.

Nate Silver