Top 1200 Two Opposites Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.

True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

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

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities.

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.

They say opposites attract, which is possibly why I am very much attracted to Nicholas Parsons.

Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

There's quite a few people who said they couldn't play with two drummers, and I don't understand it. It's no different than playing with two guitar players, two trumpets, or two anythings.

A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.

Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the other to survive.

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

My favorite restaurant in the Twin Cities is McDonalds. I order two cheeseburgers, two snack wraps with no sauce, two fish fillets with cheese and light tartar sauce, two large fries, two apple pies, and one large milkshake.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.

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

'Fidaa' completely sticks to being a love story. It doesn't have any digressions. Opposites attract, they say.

In the morning, I'm juicing two apples, two carrots, two celery, two beets, two ginger. I'm drinking that every morning to try to keep the cancer away.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?