You are never too old to become younger!
Mae WestTag: paradox poetry story maturity youthfulness story-telling
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae BrownTag: paradox experience judgment mistakes bad-judgement good-judgement
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
George CarlinLife is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
Albert EinsteinTag: paradox live-in-the-moment
He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No more baffling, exasperating soldier ever wore a uniform. Flamboyant, imperious, and apocalyptic, he carried the plumage of a flamingo, could not acknowledge errors, and tried to cover up his mistakes with sly, childish tricks. Yet he was also endowed with great personal charm, a will of iron, and a soaring intellect. Unquestionably he was the most gifted man-at arms- this nation has produced. -William Manchester on Douglas MacArthur
William ManchesterTag: inspirational paradox interesting macarthur
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee WilliamsTag: paradox loneliness
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: paradox teaching time-travel
[...] cela m'excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.
Nicole BrossardAn unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
Edith WhartonTag: paradox music language understanding
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
Edward TellerTag: paradox
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