The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.
Barry Unsworth
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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
GROUCHO MARX This is a contradiction in terms, of course.
DIANE ROBERTS You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms -- a serious good person.
WENDY WASSERSTEIN A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
JIM DAVIS Good morning is a contradiction of terms
JIM DAVIS Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous...
SALLY SCHNEIDER Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental...
ERWIN SCHRöDINGER Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of read...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of read...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of re...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of read...
G. K. CHESTERTON You know Jo, I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
THIRD DOCTOR - DOCTOR WHO Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a re...
G. K. CHESTERTON So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.
REBECCA MACKINNON A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in ...
THOMAS HARDY If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who ...
TONY SCHWARTZ With a lot of athletes, it's a local market. Barry Bonds is successful in the Bay Area, but beyond t...
BOB DORFMAN It was a nightmare that would have Barry Manilow screaming in horror.
SIMON COWELL If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I thin...
ROBERT M. GATES For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA For many large investors, a global strategy that does not include China, India, and Russia has becom...
GREGORY K. ERICKSEN Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO It seemed like Barry was throwing harder. And easy, not like max effort. The location was good, the ...
ADAM MELHUSE We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in...
MARTIN BUBER We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious ...
MARTIN BUBER We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in...
MARTIN BUBER The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of ...
F.A. HAYEK You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
WOODROW WILSON To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware ...
SIDNEY MADWED There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one...
MINDY KALING So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place...
CASSANDRA CLARE We have to be successful in this endeavor because we -- if we're not successful it makes our job, in...
ALBERTO GONZALES We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the a...
BARRY UNSWORTH Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts ...
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BARRY UNSWORTH I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They ...
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BARRY UNSWORTH It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-h...
THOMAS PAINE A country where God is not honored cannot be truly successful
SUNDAY ADELAJA The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms...
ELLA MAILLART If a person who grew up in an unhappy family cannot reprogram the sub consciousness he will not be a...
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Those were the terms under which a musician was successful. And he could see that I was not there, n...
JOE HENRY A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON The less instructed atheist will ask whether God can make a weight so heavy that He cannot lift it, ...
FRANK SHEED You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not ...
G.K. CHESTERTON When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction ...
JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a r...
DAMIEN HIRST Barry was an outstanding journalist and a great leader,
BILL PATTERSON It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people b...
W. H. AUDEN With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I was getting to the point where I was very unhappy and I didn't want to be a part of it,
BUSTER DAVIS There have been a lot of conservative leaders and politicians who have been successful as book autho...
CRAIG SHIRLEY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS It is impossible to be successful and prosperous if you cannot organize people to achieve maximum re...
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is impossible to be prosperous and successful, if you cannot organise people to achieve maximum r...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build pers...
SIMON MAINWARING A successful person will never use the word ‘no’, ‘I cannot’ or ‘it is impossible
SUNDAY ADELAJA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a cont...
DAVID MITCHELL It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If the government cannot explain what happened at Enron and why it was wrong in terms a jury of 12 l...
ROSS ALBERT It's going to be interesting next year, especially if Barry plays a full year. With Barry hitting fo...
RAY DURHAM For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot b...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature canno...
RICHARD FEYNMAN For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot b...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Just as with everybody who is aware of the case, I'm unhappy with the fact it is taking so long to r...
JAMES WALTERS You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
MARILYN MONROE The growth model the country followed for 25 years has been successful in terms of expansion and eco...
CISKA RAVENTóS It was a privilege to work with Barry. He taught me a lot about people and the process we learned a...
SUZANNE ANARDE If the government cannot explain what happened at Enron and why it was wrong in terms a jury of 12 l...
ROSS ALBERT If the government cannot explain what happened at Enron and why it was wrong in terms a jury of 12 l...
ROSS ALBERT This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two ...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealt...
SHARON STONE I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at m...
CLARA SCHUMANN I think it takes Barry.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
AUDREY TAUTOU My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.
SAUL LEITER As a result, we achieved the most successful quarter in our company's history in terms of record rev...
JEFF MALLETT I got 'Munich' after I had done 'In Treatment' in Israel, which was very successful....
AYELET ZURER The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time...
DOUGLAS WOOD I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest...
WENDELL BERRY I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it ...
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BARRY WHITE I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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BARRY WHITE Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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BARRY SHEENE Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
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BARRY SANDERS I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, y...
BARRY SANDERS As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
BARRY SANDERS I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always staye...
BARRY SANDERS Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
BARRY SANDERS Life doesn't stop with football.
BARRY SANDERS I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoy...
BARRY SANDERS Let's just win it and go home.
BARRY SANDERS My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart throu...
BARRY SANDERS I really love peace and quiet.
BARRY SANDERS You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
BARRY SANDERS It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing f...
BARRY SANDERS Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
BARRY SANDERS Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smar...
BARRY RITHOLTZ The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevit...
BARRY RITHOLTZ History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technolog...
BARRY RITHOLTZ A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
BARRY RITHOLTZ