Quotes About Duality

even the finest examples of men and women are capable of horrific acts under the right circumstances,

Half circus and half Supreme Court.

Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'.

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

It is a good thing to have two ways of looking at a subject, and to admit that there are two ways of looking at it.

When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity.

Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.

Two heads are twice as good as half many.

You have a gift for making a compliment sound like an insult.

Everything is relative." The man didn't move a muscle as he spoke. "A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains.

They say that some things are worse than death. That might be true. Probably is. But life and death are the beginning and end of beauty. You can't have one without the other.

But life and death are the beginning and end of beauty. You can't have one without the other.

Edna St Vincent Millay said: My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – It gives a lovely light.

The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

Las cosas nunca son lo que parecen..., todo bueno o todo malo. Sería mucho más fácil si lo fueran.

if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes—the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?

They were a pair of white mice, I thought—only Kitsey was a spun-sugar, fairy-princess mouse whereas Andy was more the kind of luckless, anemic, pet-shop mouse you might feed to your boa constrictor.

What if - is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions-? Where does it say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe soemtimes-the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or spin it another way, soemtiems you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?

Sempre achei curioso o facto das mulheres serem veneradas como deusas, enquanto na vida quotidiana são remetidas para um papel secundário e consideradas inferiores.

even perhaps something about how love can both save us and not save us.