Quotes About Opposites

My parents were a sight gag. Opposites otherwise, too. One shy but given to monologues, one outgoing and inclined to listen. One with a temper; one affable, sometimes enragingly so. Opposite in every way but their bad habits, which is the secret to a happy marriage and also the makings of a catastrophe.

It's so weird how people like hamsters so much better than squirrels," Veblen added, knowing that hamsters were hindgut fermenters and coprophagists, whereas squirrels were nothing of the sort.

Het tegenovergestelde van nergens is niet ergens, maar overal.

Y a fin de cuentas, recuerde el viejo dicho. Tarde o temprano, los extremos se tocan.

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious. He was a punk, she did ballet, what more can I say. He wanted her, she wouldn't tell, but secretly she wanted him as well

hallar un equilibrio de polaridad, no el antagonismo de la dualidad.

Life in the world functions by ego, attachment and desire, which gives the rise to the idea of "likes" and "dislikes". In this way the mind starts identifying all experiences in the world in terms of opposites, such as pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat.

If you want it to be good girl Get yourself a bad boy

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

I sometimes buy the Daily Mail and hide it in my Guardian.

who was big and strong, like you, M. Richard, gave two blows to M. Isidore Saack, who was small and weak like M. Moncharmin

Things opposite unite and appear to disappear. The potential for both remains. That is one of the greatest principles of the causes of things.

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.

Beauty and ugliness have one origin. Name beauty, and ugliness is. Recognizing virtue recognizes evil. Is and is not produce one another. The difficult is born in the easy, long is defined by short, the high by the low.

Is and is not produce one another. The difficult is born in the easy, long is defined by short, the high by the low. Instrument and voice achieve one harmony. Before and after have places. That is why the sage can act without effort and teach without words, nurture things without possessing them, and accomplish things without expecting merit: only one who makes no attempt to possess it cannot lose it.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.

The thorn is one of the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.

Pedro de Vargas, who had a respectful fondness for music and poetry but it the least skill in them, was drawn to Ortiz by the law of opposites and sought him out with the reverence of the untalented for the artist.

Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two.

Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.