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Quotes About Duality

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge How little we know that which we are! How less we may be!
~ Lord Byron
The moon is up, and yet it is not night, The sun as yet divides the day with her.
~ Lord Byron
Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
~ Lord Byron
The world's black and white, good and bad, no matter what you hear. The people who say it isn't have already chosen black.
~ Unknown
Tricksters have a key function in life and art. I maintain that if a trickster pranks her way into your life, it's time to pay attention. They are the definition of duality. Both heroic and villainous, foolish and wise, benign and malicious. Both lovable and hateful. Friendly and fearsome. Both light and dark.
~ Unknown
As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary
~ Jim Butcher
Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob? Bob's eyes darted nervously. I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.
~ Jim Butcher
Oh, I get it, I said. You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?
~ Jim Butcher
I don't know the good or the evil of the thing. That's something that only you mortals worry about.
~ Jim Butcher
Summer and Winter, constantly chasing each other, wounding what the other heals and healing what the other wounds.
~ Jim Butcher
You're still a good guy, right? You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me." "I'm thinking about changing it to 'them' and 'us,' for simplicity's sake
~ Jim Butcher
Svi tvrde da postoji jedan svijet... Ja tvrdim da postoje dva... Jedan je moj, a drugi dijelite kako ho?ete...
~ Jim Morrison
She has the devil in her eye And holds an angel in her heart. She'll get you wrapped around her little finger And tear your mind a million miles apart. Her kiss is a cup of sunshine.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.
~ Joan Crawford
I suppose everything had changed and nothing had.
~ Joan Didion
Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.
~ Joanne Harris
Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.
~ Joanne Harris
L'amore è l'unica costante in questo difficile mondo razionale, l'amore e la sua metà oscura, l'odio.
~ Joanne Harris
Quem não sabe que ao pé de cada bandeira grande, pública, ostensiva, há muitas vezes várias outras bandeiras modestamente particulares, que se hasteiam e flutuam à sombra daquela, e não poucas vezes lhe sobrevivem? Mal
~ Joaquim Machado de Assis
Os instantes do Diabo intercalavam-se nos minutos de Deus, e o relógio foi assim marcando alternativamente a minha perdição e a minha salvação.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.
~ Jodi Picoult
You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.
~ Jodi Picoult
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
~ Jodi Picoult
I believe in Hell...but it's here on earth. He shakes his head. Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.
~ Jodi Picoult