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Contradictory Quotes (page 3)

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake. Robert Penn Warren
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory! Georgette Heyer
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory. Victor Hugo
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct. Haruki Murakami
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. Emma Goldman
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss quote: "To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be..."
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. Lukas Foss
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. Bryant H. McGill
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
George Orwell quote: "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory..."
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. Hugo Weaving
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. Edward Norton
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. Robert Collier
Shirley Manson quote: "I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to..."
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. Shirley Manson
Karl Von Clausewitz quote: "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more..."
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. Karl Von Clausewitz

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