Quotes of: Contradictory Keyword

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

Irwin Shaw

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

Doug Liman

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Jeffrey Deitch

Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

The Notebook

You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view becomes obvious.

Marcel Ophuls

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Pat Conroy

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

The Magus

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

My Heart Laid Bare

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Timothy Radcliffe

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

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

Adam Clarke

The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

Natalie Dormer

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

Julian Baggini

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Thomas Mann

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

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

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

David Antin

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

Nic Pizzolatto

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