I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.
You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought their predicament in a way that entailed getting good stuff, material stuff, and having a deep relationship with God. There was no contradiction. And the idea just moves forward from there.
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.
It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.
It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.
We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and, conversely, what a dog shows, a dog actually does feel.
Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
I always look for contradiction in a character.
It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions. . . Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
