quotes about Oxymoron
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I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.
-- Barbara ParkSource : "Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?" by Anna Jane Grossman, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2007.
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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.
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Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
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A cautious creative is an oxymoron.
-- George LoisSource : "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.
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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
-- Harold Bloom -
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
-- Joe Pantoliano -
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
-- Peter Kreeft -
The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.
-- Thom S. RainerSource : Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.16, B&H Publishing Group
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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?'
-- Jane Pratt -
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
-- Wilson Follett