Quotes About Duality

Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far

Is a thing most fully itself in the darkness or the light?

Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.

America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two?

Yes?" she said. "And who might you be?" I bowed, because it seemed the appropriate response. "I might be Jill's friend." I said. "Or I might be an Israeli terrorist looking for PLO supporters. Or possibly a burglar trying to steal your jewels to support my laudanum habit. Or even a neighbor complaining about the volume. That is "Heart of Uncle," isn't it? It really ought to be louder.

Creator and Creation are singular—that Source or God is all; the dark and the light, male and female, creation and destruction, death and resurrection. In that sense, there is nothing that exists or occurs that is not Source.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side.

Reality is a sliding door.

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

Contrary to what people believe, yes, basketball has been a big part of my life. But on the other hand, it's also been a small part.

To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.

I'm from New York, so I'm simultaneously a snob and will also eat any pizza you put in front of me.

As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.

I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.

It's so much fun to play the bad girl. Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

Los humanos nos esforzamos por diferenciarnos de las bestial hasta tal punto que mostramos un denodado empeño por evitar aquello que nos recuerda que también somos bestias, animales que orinan, defecan, copulan, sangran, mueren, apestan y se descomponen.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

Biz her ÅŸeyde birbirimizin yar?s? idik: ÅŸimdi ben onun pay?n? çalar gibi oluyorum.

The way of truth is one and artless; the way of private gain and success...is double, uneven, and fortuitous.' -On the Useful and the Honourable.

He looks at me again and the flames vanish and the knife is gone and his voice goes light and breezy and all coffee-shop conversational, as if he wasn't just one second ago impaling me with fiery eyes and discussing the dark fate of my best friend and the souls of all my classmates.

I may not be evil, but that doesn't mean I'm a saint.

If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn't they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be so confused?

War is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.