Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

Adam Rippon
Adam Rippon

I don't think he has a real concept of reality. To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he's a devout Christian man is completely contradictory.

Aja Naomi King
Aja Naomi King

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

Ali Smith
Ali Smith

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.

Alun Wyn Jones
Alun Wyn Jones

We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.

Amor Towles
Amor Towles

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Chloe Benjamin
Chloe Benjamin

Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.