Ally Condie Quotes

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

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

Everything contains its antithesis.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

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

Life really is a series of contrasts.

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.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

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

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

Every side of a coin has another side.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

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