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Quotes About Complementarity

Life is not "either or," it's "both and"
~ Royce White
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.
~ John Sentamu
Freunde ergänzen einander, ergänzen heißt ganz machen, um das nötig zu haben, muß man beschädigt sein, aber wenn man es nötig hat, so kann man auch niemand brauchen, der auf dieselbe Art beschädigt ist, sondern jemand, der andere Schäden aufweist. Die Freunde füllen die Lücken, komplementär, sie holen auf, was einem fehlt, sie tun, was man versäumt hat, Verwandte tun das nicht, oder wenn, dann nur zufällig.
~ Ruth Klüger
If there is beauty, there must be ugliness; If there is right, there must be wrong. Wisdom and ignorance are complementary, And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated. This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently. "I want this, I want that" Is nothing but foolishness. I'll tell you a secret - "All things are impermanent!
~ Ryokan
debe insistirse continuamente en que «femenino» y «masculino» no son entidades en sí mismas; no son figuras arquetípicas de una diferenciación absoluta con campos de aplicación fijos y predeterminados. Son términos de una relación continua, que toman su significado el uno del otro: Por ejemplo, conteniendo y emergiendo, recibiendo y actuado, conservando y dinamizando; la base y su diferenciación, el todo y su parte.
~ Anne Baring
Everyone needed someone in the world who was like his other hand. You can't hold much or do much with one hand only. It is with both hands that a man lifts the garnered gold of the wheatsheaf and the brimming bowl of milk, with both hands that he builds his house, with both hand, clasped together, that he prays.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
~ George Eliot
A great mind must be androgynous.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Woman helps man glorify God in a way he could not do if she did not exist.
~ Mary A. Kassian
It would be difficult to write about Véra without mentioning Vladimir. But it would be impossible to write about Vladimir without mentioning Véra.
~ Stacy Schiff
pig and an elephant
~ Jon Scieszka
men and women are not interchangeable. There are things men can and should do that women cannot, and there are things that women can and should do that men cannot. So comparing men and women is something like comparing apples and oranges, except apples and oranges are actually far more like each other than are men and women. Apples and oranges can exist without each other, but men and women cannot.
~ Eric Metaxas
Tanto para o masculino como para o feminino, a totalidade só é atingível quando, numa união dos opostos, o dia e a noite, o mais alto e o mais baixo, as consciências patriarcal e matriarcal, chegam ao seu próprio modo de produtividade e mutuamente se complementam, fertilizando um ao outro.
~ Erich Neumann
I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.
~ Theodore Zeldin
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.
~ Desmond Tutu
God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.
~ Pope Francis
Si bien compartir muchos rasgos de personalidad puede hacer que una relación sea más fácil, son las diferencias las que lo hacen mucho más interesante y valioso para tu vida. En general, una pareja complementaria te puede permitir hacer lo que haces mejor y no preocuparte por lo que odias.
~ Steve Allen
There are boys and girls, there is night and day, but above all there is love.
~ Dries van Noten
If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
~ Larry Dixon
Cuba is in some ways a perfect trading partner for Minnesota because there's so little overlap between what they are good at and they produce and what Minnesota is good at and what we produce. So it's a natural trading relationship, especially because they're so close.
~ Tina Smith
Best players I played with? Striker wise, well, I had a great record with Emile Heskey - he would be one of my favourite partnerships because we were so different and worked together so well.
~ Michael Owen
So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?
~ Sue Monk Kidd
general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right,
~ Brad S. Gregory
Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
~ Pearl S. Buck