Quotes About Contrast

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise.

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

Love may be blind, but this I'll state — it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:And straight was a path of gold for him,And the need of a world of men for me.

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm;

Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r,Thou's met me in an evil hour;For I maun crush amang the stoureThy slender stem:To spare thee now is past my pow'r,Thou bonie gem.

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes.

Charismatic authority, which Max Weber contrasts with "traditional" and "rational-legal" types of authority, is described by him as repudiating the past and representing a "specifically revolutionary force.

Although Lenin did not directly take issue with it, his own outlook differed radically.

Russian nationalism was as alien to Lenin's makeup as it was congenial, deep down, to Stalin's.

Heaven, for the climate. Hell, for the company.

The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.

The period after the inauguration became known as the "Hundred Days," and its success in altering the country's mood partly stemmed from Roosevelt's clever pacing and use of dramatic contrast.

Como la vida adulta es aburrida y acomodaticia, nos creamos la ilusión de que la infancia es una especie de edad de oro

In the clear late-autumn light, the forests were a profusion of reds and golds, interrupted occasionally by large patches of black, like holes burnt in a Turkish carpet.

How drab the British and the French looked in their office suits, crumpled after their long journeys, compared to the uniforms of the SS and the Italian fascists. How unvirile; how dowdy and outnumbered.