Quotes about Contradiction

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

The nearer the church, the further from God.

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The "I do" that "I didn't.

What occurs between the lover and the beloved is the entire fullness of the Godhead. .. the God is born in solitude, from the secret mystery of the individual. The separation between life and love is the contradiction between solitude and togetherness.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.