Quotes About Opposites

There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence.

Just as there must be Black so that we can see White, the Creator has created Troubles so that we can Appreciate our Blessings.

Actually, Jang Ki Yong and I have completely opposite personalities.

I never thought I'd say this: what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

War makes strange bedfellows.

I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy.

Quootla had a suffix, - utl , that could be glued to the end of anything—nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, small rodents—and meant the word itself plus its opposite, simultaneously. It didn't always translate into Goreddi. Time/no-time almost made sense; blue/orange or fall/rise or dog/whatever-the-opposite-of-dog-is were perfectly intelligible in Quootla but boggling to nearly everyone else.

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

Abstract can only be conceived of if conventional is experienced beforehand for we define things when we know their opposites. Material reality provides the means through which we can compare, contrast, and distinguish.

the light was black. It was not real light, not good light, not the light Lizzie knew, that you could read by or warm to, but a light that was made of darkness, a cancerous light, thick and smothering

Because that's what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

Tam, kde není rozdíl? a protiklad?, nastane pohyb zpÄ›t.

Nisipul... Lucrurile care aveau form? p?reau goale de orice conÅ£inut cînd erau puse al?turi de nisip. Singurul factor sigur era miÅŸcarea lui. Nisipul era antiteza formei.

They were such an odd pairing on the face of it: Obi-Wan so self-contained, Anakin so reckless. But they'd found their balance, and now they were two halves of a whole.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.