#diction

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#big #big shoes #cane #coat #contradiction

. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

#lifestyle #attitude

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. ↗

— Charles Vest

#advanced #agency #been #bit #come

Good morning is a contradiction of terms. ↗

— Jim Davis

#contradiction #good #good morning #terms

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#always #am #food #how #i

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#nothing #propositions #say #show #they say

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary. ↗

— John Wooden

#hate #important #important thing #love #love is

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. ↗

— Billy Graham

#according #adventure #dictionary #excitement #extremely