Quotes about Contradiction
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
- John Bunyan
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.
- Charles Spurgeon
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
- William Golding
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
- John Bunyan
George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.
- Ronald Reagan
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
- Albert Camus
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
- Laurence Sterne
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
- Matshona Dhliwayo