Quotes About Duality

Why was America so kind and yet so cruel?

Besides, as Mark Twain once said, "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Si vieras, a veces tengo miedo de sentir el dualismo de fuerzas que me impulsan. Cuando he sido demasiado sublime una temporada, tengo ganas de arañar... De dañar un poco.

Doesn't everyone have at least two opposing natures warring inside them?

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.

He realized this character trait, like most, cut both ways, and could be a virtue or a flaw, depending on the circumstances.

He realized this character trait, like most, cut both ways, and could be a virtue or a flaw, depending on the circumstances. At the moment, he felt it made him rather callous.

What other kid, what other boy, would like The Middle? He says it's great because all the Hecks are smart and stupid at the same time. He says most other shows make you be one or the other.

In between, for five or ten minutes at a stretch, the real version, tense and dishonest and uncertain. I rarely allowed her to emerge for long. Work—all that productive, effective, focused work—kept her distracted and submerged all day. And drink—anesthetizing and constant—kept her too numb to feel at night.

Like every parent, you have to teach your girl to live a contradiction, to be exceptional and ordinary, all at the same time.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

I'm a hick," I recall saying to him. "No," Harrison answered. "You think you're less than you are. You're a smart hick." And then, "You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

BOTH HANDS, ONE HEART, TWO MOODS, AND A HEAD

You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

So maybe this was another example of nothing ever being just one thing. No motive is pure. No one is good or bad—but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other--the side that makes big things small or small things big.

he wasn't a bad human. He was much more on the good side of the bad/good human graph. He was bad and good, like most people. A good person who does bad things or a bad person who does good things—as long as people are involved, people will do bad or good things to them. Especially when there's money

Sometimes, there are monsters inside of us all, even in the ones we think are the most good." ~Zara White

You cloak your evil, your violence, in the mask of good. I am just evil.

Yes, he was a rock she could cling to. But he was also a rock she could smash herself to pieces against.

If the "educated Negro" could go off and be white he might be happy, but only a mulatto now and then can do this. The large majority of this class, then, must go through life denouncing white people because they are trying to run away from the blacks and decrying the blacks because they are not white.

Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

There is a flip side to every concept which has ever been coined.