Quotes About Opposites

Opposites attract only in non-living things like seen in a positively-charged cation and negatively-charged anion; but in a living beings, the attraction is ONLY seen in between the same/similar character, positive or negative, people.

The best and the worst kind of person can't go together, but the rest of the people always.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

Rhetoric is useful because things that are true and things that are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites, so that if the decisions of judges are not what they ought to be, the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves, and they must be blamed accordingly.

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

You can prepare a list of the qualities you would want in your ideal partner and fall in love with someone totally opposite.

The memories I can gather now of my parents are quite contradicting. My mother was the disciplinarian and my dad was the rule breaker.

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: – that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly – that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation

Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.

HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will to deception? or the generous deed out of selfishness? or the pure sun-bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness?

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Write about winter in the summer.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

'Fidaa' completely sticks to being a love story. It doesn't have any digressions. Opposites attract, they say.

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Life is like a seesaw, a game where the movement and the excitement come from a balance of opposites, because it will always inevitably be full of paradox. I believe that the key to progress and even to survival in life and work is to be aware that contradictions can coexist, and to learn to live with them.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly — not one.