Quotes About Contrast

Lucy's idea of sympathy compared unfavorably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

Women liked Strike—she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had not understood the appeal when she had started working for him. He was so very different from Matthew.

Strike registered the pronounced asymmetry of his pale blue eyes, one of which was a good centimeter higher than the other. It gave him an oddly vulnerable look, as though he had been finished in a hurry.

Her hair stood back on either side A face bereft of loveliness. It had no envy now to hide What once no man on earth could guess. It formed the thorny aureole Of hard unsanctified distress. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Other Side of a Mirror

She was almost monosyllabic among the buckets of mimosa and lilies a quarter of an hour later. The florist fussed and fiddled, holding blooms against Robin's hair and accidentally letting drops of cold, greenish water fall from the long stem of a rose onto her cream sweater.

She felt as though she'd suddenly been transported from the distant past into a brash and indifferent present.

there was no romantic whisper of quiet woods or secret garden about them . . .

a curious-looking man, whose ascetic features of pinched nose and black brows were enclosed by rolls of fat around chin and neck, as though a puritan had been engulfed by the body of a jolly squire.

Somé parecia ter sido empalhado em ébano macio por um mestre que se entendiou da própria maestria e começou a tender ao grotesco.

Personally, he was ready for a beer, but Robin had not been trained up to consider alcohol and bloodshed natural fellows and he felt a pint might reinforce her impression of his callousness.

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence. Me? I study natural stupidity.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

The effect of brilliancy is to be obtained principally from the oppositions of cool colors with warm colors, and the oppositions of grave colors with bright colors. If all the colors are bright there is no brightness.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue...

contrast with, say, Whig historians, such as Macaulay in nineteenth-century England, is striking. The Arab historians had no belief in the progress of humanity. Instead they waited for God to declare the End of Time.

Some time ago, I saw two verses in Psalm 106 that struck me with the force of their contrast.     ââ'¬Â¢ Verse 12 says the Israelites, after their deliverance at the Red Sea, believed His promises and sang His praise.     ââ'¬Â¢ Verses 24–25 contain these interesting words: They did not believe His promise. They grumbled in their tents.

You know the difference between a psychopath and a homeopath?" She shook her head. "Some psychopaths do no harm.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry it is the exact opposite!

Except for shooting folks in the face and cutting off ears, the lanky killer had impeccable manners.

MODERN SAUDI HISTORY IN FIVE EASY LESSONS If you did not go hungry in the reign of King Abdul Aziz, you would never go hungry. If you did not have fun in the reign of King Saud, you would never have fun. If you did not go to prison in the reign of King Faisal, you would never go to prison. If you did not make money in the reign of King Khaled, you would never make money. If you did not go bankrupt in the reign of King Fahd . . .