Quotes About Opposites

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

To make one, there must be two.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

Life essentially seeks out balance.I have found that it is in the habit of trading one sorrow for one joy until one cancels out the other.

We all have a capacity for love, for kindness, for passion. We also have a capacity for the opposite, but love is infinitely more effective in the world than hate, although they exist as equal opposites.

In that way, I am like my mother. But I fell in love with your mother because she is exactly the opposite. She is deep and thorough and cares only about the questions she keeps trying to answer for herself. The world has little use for people like your mother, but her time will come.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband.

I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.

Siblings are often very opposite.

Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities.