Quotes About Contrast

Lightheartness of being and ancient pain can't stand the sight of each other.

One burns the dead while the other burns the living.

how can you really know the joy of being on the summit of the mountain unless you have first visited the lowest valley.

you are never warmer than when you have been cold.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide everything into two groups, and those who don't.

I saw the Old Moon with the New Moon in her arms, hovering above a row of poplars. The

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

Hell has ways of permeating heaven's membrane.

How was the rain in the city?" "Too much," said Ishvar. "Streets were flooded many times. And here?" "Too little. The devil held his umbrella over us. Let's hope he shuts it this year.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

The other's body was divided: on one side, the body proper--skin, eyes--tender, warm; and on the other side, the voice--abrupt, reserved, subject to fits of remoteness, a voice which did not give what the body gave. Or further: on one side, the soft, warm, downy. adorable body. and on the other, the ringing, well-formed. worldly voice--always the voice.

Au Japon - dans ce pays que j'appelle le Japon - la sexualité est dans le sexe et non ailleurs ; aux États-Unis, c'est le contraire : le sexe est partout, sauf dans la sexualité. L'Empire des signes.

While other founding fathers were reared in tidy New England villages or cosseted on baronial Virginia estates, Hamilton grew up in a tropical hellhole of dissipated whites and fractious slaves, all framed by a backdrop of luxuriant natural beauty.

The speech lacked soaring cadences or memorable lines, yet it touched on two explosive issues at the finale. He advised Native Americans that their days as a hunting, gathering people were numbered and that he favored "civilization, christianization and ultimate citizenship" for them.89 Then, in sharp contrast to his predecessor, Grant championed black suffrage.

Harriman was a very different type from Pierpont.

Like Twain, Walt Whitman was mesmerized by Grant and grouped him with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the quartet of greatest Americans. "In all Homer and Shakespeare there is no fortune or personality really more picturesque or rapidly changing, more full of heroism, pathos, contrast," he wrote.

Unlike his father's composed look, his already seemed restless.

Although Rockefeller never said so outright, one senses that he thought Flagler had become a slave to fashion and ostentation, a traitor to the austere puritanical creed that had united them.

Rejecting a simple grid for the capital as tiresome and insipid, he argued that such a pattern made sense only for flat cities. Not only would diagonal streets provide contrast and variety, but they would serve as express lanes, shortening the distance between places. Town squares would be situated where diagonal avenues crossed.

Mr. J.P. he's such a sweetie underneath the sternness

Andrew Carnegie was truly saddened by the revelation of poor Pierpont's poverty. "And to think he was not a rich man

Before Rockefeller's hair fell out, people noted the contrast between him and his often sickly wife.

The republic they fashioned was a fine mix of parity and ruthlessness. On the one hand, it was the site of the world's first democratic parliament, the Althing, established in 930; on the other, those first democrats used to salt the heads of their enemies and carry them around to show off to each other.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.