#contradictory

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#i #i think #journalism #religion #think

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #combination #contradictory #creative #creative life

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

— Irwin Shaw

#different #even #every #might #novelist

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

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#contradictory #hard #just #people #quite

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world. ↗

— Otsuichi

#contradictions #contradictory #death #epiphany #gratitude

A single original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#humor #humor

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. ↗

— David Antin

#contradictory #disney #fortune #idea #imaginary

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory