#paradox

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#balance #city #environment #find #life

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#behavior #between #confronting #economic #great

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#does #falling #falling in love #find #here

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#enough #found #growth #only #paradoxically

He was a great thundering paradox of a man. ↗

— William Manchester

#man #paradox #thundering

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#great #great joy #joy #just #just be

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off. ↗

— Jacqueline McKenzie

#before #come #curious #get #getting

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#biggest #bulwark #bunch #democracy #fall

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. ↗

— Edward Teller

#even #may #paradoxes #solution #suggest

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#bodies #bundle #early #every #every night