Jerry Jones Quotes

The law is above the law, you know.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

We all live with contradictions.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.