Top 83 Oxymoron Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.
An honest politician is an oxymoron.
I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.
I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.
Placing "amicable" and "separation" together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.
Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can't happen, it won't happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.
My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.
The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.
I think that 'celebrity' and 'chef' should be a permanent oxymoron.
I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.
The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.
I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.
I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.
As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.
If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right.
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.
I'm a city boy by nature - that's a big-ass oxymoron - but I do appreciate nature to the fullest because they say if you wanna see God just look around. We can't make this, it's all creation, so I appreciate that.
Bad leadership is an oxymoron.
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.
You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.
That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.
Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.
Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.
A cautious creative is an oxymoron.
Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.
The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
