Violent Contradiction Quotes

#1. Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Nick Hornby

#2. The war is not over everywhere, she was told. The war is over. This war is over. The war here.

Michael Ondaatje

#3. If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.

Penelope Douglas

#4. I've tried so many different ways of meeting the right person. I assumed for years that the first step was to pretend I'm not a hit man.

Jay Stringer

#5. What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.

Alfred Kazin

#6. For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#7. They believed in him. They had looked at him in his yachting shoes, and listened to what he said, and they had made a decision in their hearts and minds to ignore the evidence and to imagine something bigger and something infinitely more beautiful than the obvious.

Rachel Joyce

#8. Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#9. Standing exposed on a rooftop, with no railing and the wind whipping about him, threatening to pull him flailing and screaming to the ground? That held no interest for him.

Matt Forbeck

#10. Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?

Jane Bryant Quinn

#11. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Edmund Burke

#12. I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille