Paradoxical Situation Quotes

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

What began to weigh heavily upon me was that at the same time I was struggling to get my scholars and their families to believe in themselves, I was part of an educational system that despite its best intentions, only reinforced their failures.

If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and from the same mouth you started devouring humans, you cried out to me 'I love you,' would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

All of Iraq's oil fields are under U.S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

It's kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get.

The brain abhors discrepancies.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

It's like scrying into that weird space. There's so much coming out of him, it shouldn't be possible. Do you remember that woman who came in who was pregnant with quadruplets? It was like that, but worse." "He's pregnant?" Blue asked.

It seems paradoxical that a region so dependant on the Federal government decried government influence.