Quotes About Complement

One plus one equals both.

If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.

There's guys that don't need to play with the ball. Tony Allen doesn't need to have the ball to be effective.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Poets seem to know things that scientists don't. And vice versa. Maybe they balance each other out somehow.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather.

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

We didn't just love each other and make each other laugh and share the same basic values—there was symmetry there, the way we complemented each other. We could have each other's back, guard each other's blind spots. We could be a team. Of course, that was another way of saying we were very different, in experience and in temperament.

Apple pie without a piece of cheese is like a smooch without a squeeze.

involvement and approval, including the president. But the president did not feel threatened because this man's strength complemented his strength and compensated for his weaknesses. So he had the strength of two people, a complementary team. This man's success was not dependent on his circumstances. Many others were in the same situation. It was his chosen response to those circumstances, his focus on his Circle of Influence, that made the difference.

Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.

He was the toast to her butter.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

There is no defect without its own virtue and vice versa.

In Theocritus' real Sicily, the joys and sorrows of the human heart complement each other as naturally and inevitably as do rain and shine, day and night, in the life of nature.

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation needs to be complemented with an overview, which I think is scientific commonsense.