25 quotes found
“People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.”
“Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations tha...”
“A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.”
“I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded wil...”
“Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.Or insanity.”
“Then theres the intelligence that practically radiates from you. Did I ever tell you smart women seriously turn me on? His thumbs began caressing her cheeks and he bent to whisper close to her ear....”
“Aristotle declared that, It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Does the intrinsic tension between opposing ideas create a lamplight of stereosco...”
“You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a similar one.' Indeed, we shall produce a thousand similar, from th...”
“I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I am fooled by infinite words that rush in my blood, yet imprisoned by the very thoughts...”
“Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.”
“Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and ...”
“why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cann...”
“It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides r...”
“One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.”
“If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity?”
“The many contradictions in our lives such as being home while feeling homeless, being busy while feeling bored, being popular while feeling lonely, being believers while feeling many doubts can f...”
“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.”
“We visited Mao's old house, which had been turned into a museum-cum-shrine. It was rather grandquite different from my idea of a lodging for exploited peasants, as I had expected it to be. A captio...”
“Then there’s the intelligence that practically radiates from you. Did I ever tell you smart women seriously turn me on?” His thumbs began caressing her cheeks and he bent to whisper close to her ea...”
