Quotes About Opposites

She was a slightly built woman, narrow of hip. He was not a small man.

We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.

Jee haan, but they are the same! One hunts, one runs; one chews the carrot, one chews the Sir John Hurt. One makes eggs that go BANG! One makes Acme traps that go BANG! See? Sameful.

Well, I have five brothers—Rest, Thankful, Watching, Patience, Consider—and each one of them the very opposite of their name.

En una bandada de blancas palomas, un cuervo negro añade más belleza incluso que el candor de un cisne

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

With the alkalies and acids, for instance, the affinities are strikingly marked. They are of opposite natures; very likely their being of opposite natures is the secret of their effect on one another—they seek one another eagerly out, lay hold of each other, modify each other's character, and form in connection an entirely new substance.

All gods bear witness! The Jade Gate and the One-Eyed Monk are truly yin and yang, truly everlasting, truly godlike, both insatiable however much one consumes the other.

If there is beauty, there is ugliness. If there is good, there is bad. Being and nonbeing and difficult and easy and high and low and long and short and before and after and need, depend, create and define each other.

The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

My husband and I were very different: I'm spontaneous and emotional; I'm loud - he was exactly the opposite. But you need to be flexible.

I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

Percebi então, o crepúsculo,é apenas uma ilusão, porque o sol ou está acima ou abaixo do horizonte. E isso quer dizer que o dia e a noite estão ligados de uma maneira como poucas coisas o estão - não pode haver uma coisa sem a outra, porém não podem existir ao mesmo tempo. Como seria a sensação, lembro de me perguntar, de estar sempre juntos, porém para sempre separados?

Are you a preacher or a capitalist? You must make up your mind! But how could I choose? I was consumed by the ingenuous desire of uniting these two things, of finding a synthesis in which the irreducible opposites would fraternise, and of winning both the earthly life and the kingdom of the skies.