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Oxymoron Quotes

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Banksy
“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.”
Banksy, Wall and Piece

Paul Fussell
“i find nothing more depressing than optimism.”
Paul Fussell

James Patterson
“It’s, like, a safety bomb.”
-Iggy”
James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.”
Elizabeth Cruickshank

Peter Kreeft
“Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.”
Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

Laurell K. Hamilton
“Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.”
Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows

Elizabeth Gaskell
“Oh, don't be so wise and stupid.”
Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

Louis de Bernières
“The silver fish flashed in the sun like new knives, transforming their asphyxiation into a display of beauty as they flicked and leapt against each other and died.”
Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

Arthur Schopenhauer
“The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will And Representation, Volume 1

“No Muslim is a terrorist. The moment they become terrorists, they are not Muslims anymore, whatever they call themselves. A ' Muslim terrorist' is an oxymoron.”
M.T. Panchal, Karma and Redemption

Michael Bassey Johnson
“You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Edward I. Koch
“Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.”
Edward I. Koch

Alejandra Pizarnik
“. . . my fear, my joy more horrible than my fear, my obscene words, my words which are keys locking me into a mirror, with you, but ever alone.”
Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

Trent Dalton
“Don't fuckin' swear.”
Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

Bohdi Sanders
“Sometimes things don't turn out like we would like. So it is wise to prepare for the worst. I know this sounds like an oxymoron, to expect the best, but prepare for the worst, but it isn't.”
Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence

Gerald R. Ford
“If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.”
Gerald R. Ford

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Rescuing myself’ is an oxymoron that will leave me in the perpetual need of being rescued ‘from myself’.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Steven Erikson
“And where did this insane notion of buying loyalty come from? It’s a contradiction in terms.”
Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

Mohsin Hamid
“Look, unless you're writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron.”
Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Giannis Delimitsos
“Love, the phenomenal act of canceling self in favor of the very same self.”
Giannis Delimitsos

“When I rise to the challenge, it is the challenge that just rise”
William Morehead

Giorge Leedy
“There's a FEW THINGS you need to get STRAIGHT about being GAY..."
"That's an OXYmoron."
"You'll be an OXYmoron if you don't listen. GAY men SUCK and FUCK. They don't go around falling in LOVE. At least not with every TOM, DICK and HARRY.”
Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love

Sarah Mussi
“And there’s no figuring out the unknowable. And there’s some kind of oxymoron in that that’s more moron than anything else.”
Sarah Mussi, Bomb

Leviak B. Kelly
“Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.”
Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

“GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time.”
TemitOpe Ibrahim

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Editing ‘truth’ is an oxymoron.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“when I rise to the challenge, it is the challenge that must rise”
William Morehead

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