Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. – Harold Evans
I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I’m not so much for sportswear. I think it’s over. – Hedi Slimane
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. – Gail Sheehy
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. – Niels Bohr
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. – George Will
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general. – Lev Grossman
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. – Jack Schwartz
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America – that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. – Thomas Wolfe
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot
