Quotes About Duality

WHEN I'M GOOD, I'M VERY GOOD. BUT WHEN I'M BAD, I'M BETTER."—Mae West in I'm No Angel

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

Finding out" with Ranger is a whole different deal than finding out with Lula. Lula and I are Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz. Ranger is Batman.

What did it mean, that the two people she loved best in the world hated each other? It was the sides of herself, irreconcilable.

No one considered that a key might lock as well as unlock.

When I'd been with Kolya, I'd been the moon, and he was the sun: he could give me his warmth or withhold it, pursue me or forget me.

Unlike most politicians who speak only from their mind, Amar Singhji thinks and speaks both from his mind and heart.

Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.

I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.

I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

I've always been into super upbeat, cute, uplifting progressions, but at the same time, I'm also a very dark person. I really like both sides, and I feel like I'm always trying to find some middle ground with music or style or anything that I do.

I have come to hide you, " darkness told the star. "I'm too bright, " the defiant star replied.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.