427 Quotes About Paradox
- Author Jason Hickel
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When we innovate more efficient ways to use energy and resources, total consumption may briefly drop, but it quickly rebounds to an even higher rate. Why? Because companies use the savings to reinvest in ramping up more production. In the end, the sheer scale effect of growth swamps even the most spectacular efficiency improvements.
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- Author Dmitry Dyatlov
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if you really think about it, the only real means of production out there are dumb bitches with big tits...... that's the truth we keep trying to hide and run from. we create activities to distract us... for a while... there's too many of them (dumb bitches with big tits), but still in high demand....... I guess.
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- Author Thomas Keneally
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Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful.
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- Author Rita Mae Brown
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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- Author Juansen Dizon
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I am both self-destructive and self-loving. Both seem very romantic to me.
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- Author Simmy Kors
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He’s a paradox but so am I, and two paradoxes trying to solve the other is the Devil’s favourite game to play.
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- Author Pearl Zhu
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The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.
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- Author Pearl Zhu
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The paradox is the result of two opposing truths existing side by side, which can be both right.
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- Author Pearl Zhu
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Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.
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