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Quotes About Duality

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.
~ Tim Burton
Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.
~ Tim O'Brien
If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you cried out to me 'I love you!', would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?
~ Tite Kubo
Zangetsu. I don't care who you are. You'll probably say that i'm wrong but... you... and that guy... both are.. zangetsu. Hey. Is that all right? zangetsu...
~ Tite Kubo
Don't try to be a good guy. It doesn't matter who owes who. From the instant they enter into a war both sides are evil.
~ Tite Kubo
Se non impugno una spada non posso difenderti, se impugno una spada non posso abbracciarti. - Sado Yasutora Chad
~ Tite Kubo
We are the fish in front of the waterfall. We are the insects inside the cage. We are the ruins of the billows, The skull on the crosier, The force of the torrent and the whale that drinks it. We are the five-horned bull. We are the fire-breathing monster. And the screaming children. Oh, we are posioned by the moonlight.
~ Tite Kubo
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
~ Tom Robbins
The ugly may be beautiful, the pretty never.
~ Tom Robbins
If I have been given any gift in this life, it's my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.
~ Tom Robbins
If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.
~ Tom Robbins
Matters are very seldom all black or white. They can even be both at the same time - The Beer Fairy
~ Tom Robbins
Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
~ Tom Robbins
Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.
~ Tom Robbins
They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.
~ Tom Robbins
The underworld persists because society needs it, insists upon it, supports it (at the same time that it denies and persecutes it, of course).
~ Tom Robbins
Enlightened and endarkened. The ultimate.
~ Tom Robbins
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
~ Tom Stoppard
Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past.
~ Tom Stoppard
So it is with us all, we're not so one-or-the-other. The one who puts on the clothes in the morning is the working majority, but at night-perhaps in the moment before unconsciousness- we meet our sleeper- the priest is visited by the doubter, the Marxist sees the civilizing force of the bourgeoisie, the captain of the industry admits the justice of common ownership.
~ Tom Stoppard
ROS My name is Guildenstern, and this is Rosencrantz. Guil confers briefly with him. (Without embarrassment.) I'm sorry—his name's Guildenstern, and I'm Rosencrantz.
~ Tom Stoppard
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
~ Toni Morrison
You looking good. Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
~ Toni Morrison
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
~ Toni Morrison