Quotes About Contrast

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

S'appeler Plectrude, c'était à double tranchant : soit on était laide et ce prénom soulignait votre laideur, soit on était belle et l'étrange sonorité de Plectrude démultipliait votre beauté.

Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.

Toplum yasalari yercekimi yasalarina benzemez, insan genellikle asagi dogru degil, yukari dogru duser. DoÄŸu'dan Uzakta

Quand la joie devient l'ennemie de la joie...

N'est-ce pas l'une des vertus de l'écriture que de coucher sur la même feuille horizontale le futile et l'exceptionnel ? Tout reprend dans un livre l'épaisseur négligeable de l'encre écrasée.

Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by certain doubts.

Once, standing in an open space, he'd seen a commercial airliner pass overhead, on its way from one country to another, the sun golden upon its wings. It seemed incredible to him that there were people inside, drinking wine and eating from plastic trays, pressing a button for the hostess. Did they have any idea what was going on directly below them, a nation devouring itself? He felt like a drowning man watching a ship sail by.

The grey steel streets were indeed paltry (not our feelings, and no, not the blues) but those gray streets were dead and cold, despite our warm living selves celebrating the life in us dancing across their surfaces.

Somewhere along the line I also recognized that spiritual growth is "inner" creativity, as contrasted to creativity in the arts and the sciences, which is "outer" creativity.

There can be funny moments during sad stories

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

A tortoise's shell is a house of the poverty and if the tortoise is taken to the wealthy town, it will still be living in its house of poverty.

Clare is good, spiky company, and she is the very best companion to have in a bad situation. Trouble brings out the cheer beneath her darkness, unlike everyday life, which tends to have the opposite effect

so we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.

He wanted to be in the center of the city, in either the oldest or the most modern part, as

When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.

And maybe that was why he'd fallen so easily for Bertie, who was skinny and polished, but with indolence instead of work.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

Work must reflect the randomness of life, with its incessant, merciless, almost humorous bombardment of highly contrasting emotions and experiences.

We're doing it because he's trying to look like a respectable member of the family and not the fucking mafia,' Dex snapped. He grimaced at Ethan. 'Sorry, man, but seriously--this is some fuckin' suit.' Ethan looked at himself and his spiffy shiny cuffs and sighed. 'I was going for grown-up,' he confessed. Kane was the one who said it. 'Well, what you got was connected, but that's okay, right? Because, you know, better a hired killer than a porn star.'

All'orizzonte, le stelle erano visibili in una scia chiara contro il lucido nero e le nubi afose, all'apparenza morbide, e l'acqua nera del fiume erano un rilievo nero sul letto di luce che giocava nell'acqua, lasciando che il mondo intero, il loro mondo, divenisse un capolavoro in bianco e nero.

it winds up in the Pacific Ocean, but when we piss out our coffee at my folks' place, it ends up in the Atlantic one.