427 Quotes About Paradox

[T]he paradoxical insecurity of the wealthy[: t]he fear of some future material insecurity compels [the wealthy] to put more space between themselves and the materially insecure, and in hoarding resources and creating and sustaining systems that accelerate inequality, they perpetuate the insecurity under which so many suffer.

At the moment that the Sun is at its highest, it is setting. At the moment that something is born, it is dying.

Certain ideas overwhelm us by their simplicity.

Increasingly political, assertive, articulate, and outspoken as we age, many of us become, paradoxically, the girls we were once: wild, hearty, courageous, and playful.

Statistics is the main of all inaccurate studies

Are identical twins defined by the other or defined by the desire not to be defined by the other?

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this or some of that or all of this and none of that. We make trade-offs we think are best at the time.

It's not easy having a paradox at the core of one's own being.

A mermaid is not frightened by her own duality. She is a walking contradiction of piety and lust, sobriety and ecstasy, brilliance and stubborness, the sacred and the scandalous. ...so dance with your own inner paradox.