David Kirk Quotes

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Everything contains its antithesis.

The good thing about India, and the good thing about Melbourne, is that it's very, very hard on this planet of ours to find two places that are almost diametrically opposed.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

most hated by the dark, for their name is light.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.

Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

Negativity and Hulkamania - 2 things that don't go together.

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.