Quotes about Contradiction
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
- Marilyn Monroe
Look at you. Why is the only woman you ever cared about a world-class criminal - are you a masochist?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
- Soren Kierkegaard
But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
- Soren Kierkegaard
This time we live in is saying, 'Live for yourself, and whatever makes you happy' and all this kind of stuff, and it's so contrary. And we so don't want to go and be reckless for the Lord.
- Jeremy Camp
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.
- Brennan Manning
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
- Mark Twain
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
- Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight
- Mark Twain