Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noah Feldman

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

Matt Dillon

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Neil Postman

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

James Macdonald

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Ayn Rand

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

Bono

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

Ben Jonson

All concord's born of contraries.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Jim Rich

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Ralph Lauren

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is, ... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

Lois Perrin

This law sends a message contrary to the aloha spirit.

Denise Sposato

It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Confidentiality of customer information is our No. 1 priority.

Tim Curry

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Jean Lacordaire

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Michael McKeon

Any suggestion to the contrary ... is outrageous and wrong.