Gayle Forman Quotes

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

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

Everything contains its antithesis.

There are two words for everything.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

I'm a Gemini. Know what that means? There are two very different sides to me.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

We have the ability to attract and repel at the same time, which I think you should embrace. Otherwise, you're just going to be, like, this Neil Diamond act.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

I am a living contradiction.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.