Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.
Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a ...
The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory output.' 'I continued to lecture a bit more, to disguise the fact that I was getting my ass handed to me by my dog.
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same ca...
My father was a very contradictory man.
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
I don’t think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it’s not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype.
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.
People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
