Quotes About Opposites

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

You are the Fire Lily", said the Winterking softly. "And I am the Ice King. Does fire melt ice? Or ice melt fire? Or may they come together, fire and ice, neither melted nor quenched?

Americans do not naturally apply the term bourgeois to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. The term middle class does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artistall good.

Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses.

Wealth and compassion are opposites.

In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.

We're not friends - in fact, we pretty much as a rule irritate each other. But we've learnt to embrace it and use it as a strength... the other guy's always seeing something from the opposite pole.

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I love to have contrast.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

She was like a tropical flower in this dark, stuffy room. One that could kill you.

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

I must state again: Nothing exists in our human dimension without its opposite close by.

The ego and the shadow come from the same source and exactly balance each other. To make light is to make shadow; one cannot exist without the other.

To reconcile so great a span as heaven and earth is beyond our ordinary way of seeing; generally, two irreconcilable opposites (guilty and need) make neurotic structure in us. It takes a poet — or the poet in us — to overlap such a pair and make a sublime whole of them.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.

There was in the mountains, and perhaps in the world at large, a theory of compensation that held that for everything given something else was immediately and visibly lost. Well, you've got the smarts even if your cousin did get the looks. Compliments, seductive as flowers, thorny with their opposites: Yes, you may be smart but you sure are ugly; You may look nice but you didn't get a brain. Compensation; balance in the universe.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're perfect for each other! You irritate people, and he smooths things out. You have good mojo, and he only thinks he does. You're broke, and he's rich. You've got those weird feet of yours, and he's got them cute ears.

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.