#contradictions

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

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#contradictions #i #i am #man #suppose

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#been #contradictions #drawn #full #i

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#contradictions #harmony #keep #learning #live

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#contradictions #life-and-death #religions #death

Life is never free of contradictions. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#free #life #never

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#advance #avoid #characters #contradictions #detail

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians. ↗

— Henry Adams

#paradox #education

The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears? Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation! I guess that explains their rich military history, then. -Ennesbey & Petey ↗

— Howard Tayler

#contradictions #cuddly #humour #military #overreaction

Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that not many of these gods actually exist. Some believe that none of them exist. There's just us and an ocean of darkness around us. I'm no philosopher or poet, how would I know the truth? It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work - much like our politicians - and yet keep winning reelection to their golden thrones in heaven, year after year. That's not to say I don't respect them, Mr. Premier! Don't you ever let that blasphemous idea into your yellow skull. My country is the kind where it pays to play it both ways: the Indian entrepreneur has to be straight and crooked, mocking and believing, sly and sincere, at the same time. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#contradictions #entrepreneur #god #gods #men