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Quotes About Opposites

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.
~ Celia Thaxter
Everything has its opposite within it.Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope.
~ Jay Woodman
I know that opposites attract, but who the hell wants to spend time with an opposite?
~ Brent Hartinger
Like minds do not always blend. They can be an explosive mixture.
~ Brian Herbert
Anticipation and dread aren't opposites, just different versions of the same game. Both involve knowing that something is going to happen, but not knowing when. And whether you end up winning or losing, you at least get to reach a conclusion. There's always some comfort in that.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
~ Terry Pratchett
According to the creation story in the biblical book of Genesis, God said, "Let there be light." I like to imagine that light replied, saying, "God, I have to wait for my twin brother, darkness, to be with me. I can't be there without the darkness." God asked, "Why do you need to wait? Darkness is there." Light answered, "In that case, then I am also already there.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.
~ Karen Chance
Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love. Sunshine on ice. She warms his frost. He cools her fever.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac
~ Karen Marie Moning
Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She's chiffon and satin ribbons. I'm raw meat and razor blades.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Devil and Angel: he, seduced by her lightness; she, tempted by his darkness. Each drawn to what they lacked.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Fire to his ice, frost to her flame.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Thing is, we love the game we play, the way we provoke each other, we thrive on it. And that was a trait I couldn't wait to explore in bed with him. People say opposites attract and that's true, they do—combustively, and short-term. I think it's those with like minds and hearts that succeed long-term.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Fuego para su frío, hielo para su fuego
~ Karen Marie Moning
She and Harriet Warner were worlds apart not only in looks, but also their place on earth–a monarch butterfly and a luna moth. Each had been dropped into lives that were polar opposites, traveling along different longitudes lines destined never to intersect.
~ Karen White White
From Taoism's yin yang and the M?ori takarangi to Buddhism's endless knot and the Celtic double spiral, each design invokes a continual dynamic dance between complementary forces.
~ Kate Raworth
Unlike magnets, opposites do not necessarily attract; sometimes they merely bash one another to death.
~ Brian Haig
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.
~ Bruce Lee
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
~ Buddha
Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee!
~ Herman Melville