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Quotes About Opposites

Whilst a word like "impede" survived, its opposite, "expede," did not.
~ Melvyn Bragg
Fique a saber, padre, que os opostos são os mais iguais. Não acredita, veja: o fogo não é quem se parece mais ao gelo? Ambos queimam e, nos dois, só através da morte o homem pode entrar.
~ Mia Couto
Nascimento e morte ocorreram em simultâneo como dois barcos que se cruzam em sentido inverso. - A vida são fósforos, acendendo-se uns em outros que se apagam.
~ Mia Couto
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife. —Heraclitus (c. 540–c. 480 B.C., Greek philosopher)
~ Unknown
The two that is one the one that is all. One to save the world, the other to destroy it.
~ Michael Scott
Le pecore bianche fanno «Beh!», le pecore nere fanno «Meh!».
~ Unknown
You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.
~ Milton Glaser
Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
~ Mitch Albom
We loved our opposites so that we could free ourselves from our selves.
~ Monique Truong
Comparing the sun with the moon is similar to those who try to compare God with the devil.
~ Unknown
Good and evil are one. Just like a coin, the head and the tail.
~ Unknown
We need the balance between good and evil, just like the scorching sun and the soothing moon.
~ Unknown
You know what they say about "truth" and "the appearance of truth" being opposites.
~ Naomi Alderman
Every wall has two reasons for existing.
~ Unknown
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
~ Norman Podhoretz
What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked. "It's not good." Clover said. "Then what is it?" 'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge. "I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.
~ Obert Skye
One master defines Zen as the art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth can be reached only through the comprehension of opposites.
~ Okakura Kakuz?
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
~ Ovid
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
~ Ovid
Darkness and light are inextricably bound together.
~ Pat Schneider
Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Dos opuestos se pueden unir para crear algo totalmente nuevo y extraordinario.
~ Patricia Ryan
Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Ben ne isem onun tam kar??t?n? içeren bir kad?na ihtiyac?m var.
~ Patrick Süskind