Quotes About Contrast

You're trying to paint things as either black or white," he said. "As either good or evil. It's never that neat.

Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation.

Noel lay stuck to the Naugahyde and apparently felt nothing. His back, soft and wasted, was not unlike Max's. Noel's was so feminine; Max's so dark and hairy - hairier than Noel's. It was dismal to have a hairy wife.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

He was the antithesis of the gaudy mafiosi

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

How does Jesus differ from other great persons and heroes? All heroes come from lowliness and want to be great, while Jesus comes from the heights and wants to be humble. All heroes are human beings and want to be like God,[523] while Christ is God and wants to be a human being. All heroes are born of the earth; Christ is born of God.[524] [—] John 3:6; Acts 4:12

I muri nudi ed umidi, il silenzio, lo squallore delle luci: tutti là dentro parevano essersi dimenticati che in qualche parte del mondo esistevano fiori, donne ridenti, case allegre e ospitali. Tutto là dentro era una rinuncia, ma per chi, per quale misterioso bene?

Cum de pot oare animalele, care nu È™tiu ce înseamn? s? fii condamnat la solitudine, s? se joace singure, iar omul nu poate, È™i, dac? încearc? s-o fac?, îl cuprinde curând o neliniÈ™te È™i mai mare?

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

This quality of Jewish folk music [- it can appear to be happy when it's tragic-] is close to my idea of what music should be. The should always be two layers in music.

Samo su sitne ptice Å¡arene. Gavrani su crni. Ni orlovi se ne kite.

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Although I look like a drag queen's Christmas tree on the outside, I am at heart a simple country woman.

It's about ten times the size of the Bible — and unlike the Bible, contains no good news.

Falling and flying are near identical sensations, in all but one final detail.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Every writer in the country can write a beautiful sentence, or a hundred. What I am interested in is the ugly sentence that is also somehow beautiful.

Two solid weeks of beautiful weather. Clear sunny days, low humidity, temperature in the seventies, air so brisk and clean you could read E PLURIBUS UNUM on a dime across the street. Clear cloudless nights, temperature in the fifties, the sky a great soft raven's breast, an immense bowl of octopus ink salted with a million hard white crystalline stars and garnished with a huge moon pulsing with white light. It was disgusting.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.