Ally Carter Quotes

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

... gross, barefaced inconsistency.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

I stick by my principles, and one of my principles is flexibility.

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.

It's easy to make jokes about Donald Trump. There is such a difference between what he says and his behavior. It's not 180 degrees off with him. It's some sort of oblique angle.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.