#contradict

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#different #even #every #might #novelist

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#choose #contradictions #corner #i #i think

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#built #contradiction #criticized #discuss #discussion

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#commands #contradiction #fully #god #great

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#aim #between #captured #contradiction #distinguish

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#equality #feminism #gender-norm #inspirational #social-norm

Life is never free of contradictions. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#free #life #never

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it. ↗

— David Chalmers

#brain #certain #character #consciousness #contradict

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#advises #another #any #before #contradict

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. ↗

— Richard Savage

#fiction #much #part #polly #sex