(69 quotes found)
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction”
William Blake
“Do I contradict myself? Very well thenI contradict myselfI am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
“Flight is intolerable contradiction.”
Muriel Rukeyser
“If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.”
Miguel de Unamuno
“I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.”
Charlie Chaplin
“A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Good morning is a contradiction of terms”
Jim Davis
“Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?”
Nikita Khrushchev
“When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.”
David Kirk
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