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That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
by Kathy Mattea (Musician, American , born in 1959) keywords: earth, great, joy, just, living, midst, numb, pain, paradox, things, those , well That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
by Jacqueline McKenzie (Actor, Australian , born in 1967) keywords: actually, before, come, curious, get, getting, go, know, lot, love, nervous, off, out, paradox, rash, really, scared, showing, think , up Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
by Jeremy Northam (Actor, English , born in 1961) keywords: actually, any, fiction, heart, job, kind, paradox, storytelling, surely, tell , truth This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
by Bill Owens (Politician, American , born in 1950) keywords: address, any, capita, college, colorado, degrees, education, go, higher, lag, more, must, nation, paradox, per, percentage, state, students, than, year , yet After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
by Joy Page (Actor, American , born in 1924) keywords: after, born, ecstasy, eternity, filled, finding, grief, leaves, paradox, see, seeing, seeking, strange, sudden , threshold The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
by Ralph Peters (Soldier, American , born in 1952) keywords: age, biggest, century, face, great, human, internationally, paradox, powerful, problems, soul , technology It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
by John Ruskin (Writer, English , born in 1819) keywords: architecture, fantastic, imperfect, important, most, nevertheless, noble, paradox, seems, truly, truth , which The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
by Jack Schwartz (Scientist) keywords: anti-semitism, away, charges, explain, invariably, jews, make, paradox, simply, them , up It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
by Gail Sheehy (Writer, American , born in 1937) keywords: also, finishes, out, paradox, place, prime, reach, see , where The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
by George Stephanopoulos (Celebrity, American , born in 1961) keywords: act, clinton, compassionate, conscious, could, his, history, how, intelligent, manner, paradox, place, president, public-spirited, self-destructive, selfish, stupid , such The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
by Paul Valery (Poet, French , born in 1871) topics: Science keywords: capital, discovery, folly, inborn, metaphor, oneself, oracle, paradox, proof, spring, torrent, truths , us The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
by Earl Warren (Judge, American , born in 1891) topics: Patriotism keywords: failure, found, imperatives, internationalism, most, our, paradox, recognize, time , tragic Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
by George Will (Journalist , born in 1941) keywords: accomplishes, because, constitute, elite, fascinate, good, mediocrity, paradox, politicians, public , such Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: america, certain, fixed, haunting, here, movement, only, our, paradox, perhaps , strange
