Ian Doescher Quotes

I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.

I'm not sure if I'd call myself an extrovert. I think I'm a bit contradictory. I like being endearing and venomous at the same time. I guess it's one part of myself fighting against the other part, proving that I'm not that nice all the time.

I am a living contradiction.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

One must always do what one really cannot.

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.