#contradictory

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#complex #contradictory #different #different people #empower

Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes Luke a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowdilly, small and slender like. Hard as di'monds, soft as moonlight. Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars. Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#beauty

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

— Irwin Shaw

#different #even #every #might #novelist

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

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

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#genius #indeed #mozart #qualities #understand

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#considered #contradictory #democracy #equality #exclusive

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #contradictory #experience #eye #hence

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#emotion #messy #true