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"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot
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"contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth." »Blaise Pascal
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"Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities." »Terry Josephson
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"The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox." »Kedar Joshi
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"contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." »Ayn Rand
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"Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself." »Hazlitt
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"One must love a cat on its own terms." »Peter Gray
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"in simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." »John Erksine
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"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it." »Dan Quayle
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"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God." »Saint Teresa of Avila
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"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes." »Harrison Ford
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"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible." »Alfred A. Knopf
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"You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice." »Ursula Le Guin
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"Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms." »Gloria Steinem
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"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings." »George Tooker
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"Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly." »Samuel Johnson
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." »Samuel Butler
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"It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing." »H. L. Mencken
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"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." »H.L. Mencken
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"No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." »Douglas Adams
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"Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever." »Gail
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"If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money." »John Updike
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"You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul." »Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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"Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay." »Millard Fuller
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