It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.
I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
I think like a man but have the emotions of a woman, and that's really dangerous.
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.
I was good and bad, but never wicked.
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?
It's really interesting to play someone you wouldn't want to ever spend more than a couple of drinks with - but who has redeemable characteristics.
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?
I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.
I'm the angriest and most empathetic person you'll ever meet.
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
I was a nerdy jock.
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.
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.
