Quotes About Opposites

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.

You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

There is no meaning to light if there is no darkness.

I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Whenever you have a clash of opposites in your being and neither will give way to the other (the bush will not be consumed and the fire will not stop), you can be certain that God is present. We dislike this experience intensely and avoid it at any cost; but if we can endure it, the conflict-without-resolution is a direct experience of God. A

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

You will think in terms of opposites—when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.

The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule.

The male and female halves of the True Source were alike and unalike, attracting and repelling, fighting against each other even as they worked together to drive the Wheel of Time.

tienes que saber la diferencia entre un cheque de nómina y el flujo de efectivo porque, en lo que se refiere a la educación, son conceptos opuestos.

Ideals have curious properties, and one of them is that they turn into their opposites when one tries to live up to them.

In life, as in dreams, however, things often go by contraries

Again Anne shivered. How terrible Ã¢â'¬Â¦ sitting opposite each other at table Ã¢â'¬Â¦ lying down beside each other at night Ã¢â'¬Â¦ going to church with their babies to be christened Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and hating each other through it all! Yet they must have loved to begin with. Was it possible she and Gilbert could ever Ã¢â'¬Â¦ nonsense! The Pringles were getting on her nerves. Handsome

She is just a perfect angel, while I am only angelic in spots and demonic in other spots.

Dr. King's fitting description of the good life, 'a creative synthesis of opposites.'

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

I thought we were the good guys," he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it's evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

two opposites of rape To have sex is human. To make love, Divine.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.