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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
— John Fowles
Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.
— Kiran Desai
People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.
— Howard Zinn
Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.
— Virchand Gandhi
All the seemingly loose threads and contradictory claims of the rest of the Bible come together in Jesus.
— Timothy J. Keller
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory ... and is challenged by such irregularities.
— Frank X. Barron
Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.
— T. B. Joshua
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Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides ... so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.
— Theodore Roosevelt
FAKE Mask... - That's when we are honest... or probably not...More likely contradictory!
(FACEBOOK = MASK) — Deyth Banger
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
— Irwin Shaw
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping
— Nicholas Sparks
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[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
— Salvador Dali
While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Truths can be wholly contradictory, the blackest black and the whitest white at the same time.
— Nadia Hashimi
If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.
— John Gresham Machen
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-sat-isfied man.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
— Lee Daniels
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
— Charles Baudelaire
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
— Sydney Schanberg
I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.
— Jeffrey Deitch
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
— Emile M. Cioran
I like characters who are contradictory.
— David Bergen
Watch for contradictory information (page 37).
— James Morrison
Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.
— Danielle LaPorte
Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
— Robert De Niro
Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states.
— Hannah Arendt
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
— Timothy Radcliffe
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
— Leonard Bernstein
Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".
— Robert A. Heinlein
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.
— Frans De Waal
To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code....
— Deyth Banger
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
— Bill Ayers
The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.
— George Seldes
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
— Norman Mailer
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
— Pat Conroy
Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together.
— David Kessler
Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?
— Christopher Brookmyre
Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.
— Alfred Jarry
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
— Germaine Greer
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
— Georgette Heyer
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— Craig Ferguson
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
— Shirley Manson
Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.
— Julie Delpy
Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory.
— Peter Enns
Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.
— Adam Rayner
I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.
— Richard Ayoade
The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.
— R.C. Sproul
If you have a pair of contradictory ideas, discuss all the possible consequences with your peers.
— Eraldo Banovac
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.
— Donna J. Haraway
A politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence
— Reginald Hill
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
— Tom Robbins
Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming ...
— Charles Foster Johnson
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
— Julia Alvarez
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
— Charles De Gaulle
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
— George Eliot
It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.
— James A. Michener
Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen
— Kathleen Collins
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
— Salvador Dali
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
— Anne Hathaway
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
— Rem Koolhaas
Life itself is contradictory. Only death is consistent.
— Vera Caspary
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
— Eckhart Tolle
I backed away from his flash, my relationship with cameras contradictory at best, schizophrenic at worst.
— Anne McAneny
Feelings are a funny thing, he realized. They're always more tangled and contradictory and complex than we want them to be. Than we care to admit.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,
— Celeste Ng
Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.
— Diana Gabaldon
I don't think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it's not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype.
— Shirley Manson
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together ... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
— William Wordsworth
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
— George Orwell
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Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.
— Richard Overy