Walking Contradiction Quotes

#1. So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

Gayle Forman

#2. My mother was an angel," I blurted. "A guardian angel."
Kaidan began to chuckle.
"What's so funny?" I asked.
"You. You're a walking contradiction. Horns and a halo. I don't belive it.

Wendy Higgins

#3. I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.

Jerry Della Femina

#4. I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

Kim Elizabeth

#5. The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the reader to feel their own body while they are reading, is this: we live by and through the body, and the body, is a walking contradiction.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#6. I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.

Alber Elbaz

#7. I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#8. The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

Valerie Jarrett

#9. For God's sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. I don't really read reviews ... That's not where my attention goes.

Lena Dunham

#11. To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

Pete Seeger

#12. Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.

Tariq Ramadan

#13. And this girl - this tiny, curvaceous, engaging, walking, talking contradiction - is working her way up to Libby Fields's position very, very quickly, which is really saying something since I'm twenty-five, not fourteen.

M. Leighton

#14. The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

Seneca The Younger

#15. The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

Signe Baumane

#16. Sunday, the worst god-damned day of them all.

Charles Bukowski

#17. He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.

Charles Dickens

#18. Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Leslie Fiedler

#19. I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

Iman

#20. I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Richard P. Feynman

#21. A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.

Peter Kreeft

#22. Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh.

Ian Fleming

#23. Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

Joe Abercrombie

#24. Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

David Novak