#contradictory

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

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#contradictory #ecstasy #feelings #felt #heart

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#even #false #intelligence #many #more

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

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#ironic #itself #life #more #nothing

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#about #also #aspects #beautiful #beautiful city

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

— Nigella Lawson

#emotion #messy #true

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#confidence #contradictory #humility #preacher #qualities

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#paradoxical #reality

My father was a very contradictory man. ↗

— John Malkovich

#father #man #very