Quotes About Opposites

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

I'd been in and out of relationships, never very successfully. Then, when I met Angus, I found someone who also became my best friend in the world. And once you have somebody who you want to be with and share things with, it's fantastic. He's the total opposite of me, but somehow together we are like one whole person.

It's funny: I did 'Step Brothers' the same summer I did 'Revolutionary Road,' which are completely different.

The sleeping and the waking, the bright and the dark, the voice and the silence... la présence et l'absence. All the presumed opposites which converge somewhere in one point where they sing the hymn of their union--and this place is, for the time being, our heart.

that young man, like the son of a neck and a nun

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

And evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a hot trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other

Il sentit son corps se scinder en deux, devenir chaleur et froidure, tendresse et dureté, tremblement et impassibilité, chaque moitié grinçant contre l'autre.

It's funny how "a part" and "apart" are complete opposites, yet only differ by a little space.

But when there's light, there's darkness as well.

We were incompatible in a lot of ways. Like for example, I was a night person, and he didn't like me.

Sour apples neutralized chocolate. Bread neutralized hot, spicy foods

Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

Angel and devil," he said. "One is but a shade of the other.

If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain—if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.

Opposites attract. If two people just alike get married, one of you is unnecessary. LARRY BURKETT

A leader and a tyrant are polar opposites.

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

They were a pair of white mice, I thought—only Kitsey was a spun-sugar, fairy-princess mouse whereas Andy was more the kind of luckless, anemic, pet-shop mouse you might feed to your boa constrictor.