Zsa Zsa Gabor  - Quotes

 Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.  

Tags: marriage   paradox   wisdom     


The Ice Storm  - Quotes

 
[first lines]
Train Conductor:
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This train, originating from New York's Grand Central Station, is back in service. Next stop will be New Canaan, Connecticut. New Canaan, Connecticut next stop.
Paul Hood:
[narration] In issue 141 of the Fantastic Four, published in November, 1973, Reed Richards had to use his anti-matter weapon on his own son, who Aannihilus has turn into the Human Atom Bomb. It was a typical predicament for the Fantastic Four, because they weren't like other superheroes. They were more like a family. And the more power they had, the more harm they could do to each other without even knowing it. That was the meaning of the Fantastic Four: that a family is like your own personal anti-matter. Your family is the void you emerge from, and the place you return to when you die. And that's the paradox - the closer you're drawn back in, the deeper into the void you go.
 

Craig Ferguson  - Quotes

 The Universe is very, very big.

It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.

Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.

Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.



Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.
 

Tags: eternity   forever   infinity   love   paradox   time   universe     


Robert A. Heinlein  - Quotes

 His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching. 

Tags: paradox   teaching     
Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. 

Tags: life   paradox     
Douglas Adams  - Quotes

 If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make. 

Tags: paradoxes     
Eoin Colfer  - Quotes

 Artemis simple-toon 

Tags: artemis   fowl   myles   paradox   time     
V for Vendetta  - Quotes

 Evey Hammond:
Who are you?
V:
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond:
Well I can see that.
V:
Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
 

Niels Bohr  - Quotes

 How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. 

Tags: paradox   physics     
Julian Barnes  - Quotes

 And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly. 

Tags: honour   life   paradox     
Stephen R. Donaldson  - Quotes

 And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox

For he is everything and nothing

Hero and fool

Potent, helpless

And with one word of truth or treachery

He will save or damn the earth

Because he is mad and sane

Cold and passionate

Lost and found
 

Tags: character   choice   conflict   paradox     
Isaiah Berlin  - Quotes

 Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted. 

Tags: equality   liberty   paradox   power   rights   weakness     
Mark Helprin  - Quotes

 Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence. 

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Eoin Colfer  - Quotes

 how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant.

Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall.

Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it.
 

Tags: artemis   descant   fowl   mervall   paradox   time     
Edith Wharton  - Quotes

 An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.  

Tags: language   music   paradox   understanding     
Toba Beta  - Quotes

 No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come,

but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual.

This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.
 

Tags: doubt   hope   life   overcome   paradox   toba   truth     
Jimmy Connors  - Quotes

 Mom? 

Tags: paradox     
Anthony Beauchamp  - Quotes

 I couldn't quite fathom that she was real. There were so many paradoxes in that face. Darkness and purity; depth and youth; stillness and animation. She had a fresh new look, a beauty that was ethereal. 

Tags: beauty   paradox     
Thomas Keneally  - Quotes

 Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful.  

Tags: paradox   writing     
Eoin Colfer  - Quotes

 They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame. 

Tags: fowl   koboi   opal   paradox   time     
Edward Teller  - Quotes

 Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.  

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Howard Thurman  - Quotes

 And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days. 

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