Quotes About Contrast

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Whatever you imagine, God is the opposite of that.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.

To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul.

God is the distance between light and darkness.

Today religious nuts outnumber monkey nuts in the world.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.

Tell me, Dr. Lanark, is there a connection between your love of vast panorama and your distate for human problems?

He contained two equal sorts of knowledge: the warm lazy knowledge that above on the mountain a blond girl in a white dress waited for him, shy and eager; and the cooler knowledge that this was unlikely and the good of climbing was the exercise and view from the top. There was no conflict between these knowledges, his mind passed easily from one to the other, but when he stood up to begin the last of the climb the thought of the girl was stronger.

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.

Even monsters are beautiful.

War was about yawning chasms of inactivity, punctuated by brief, screaming interludes of action. And in those brief, screaming interludes, events happened both quickly and with dreamlike slowness, every instant burned into memory.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a moustrap.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.

The sick woman was usurping the place of the healthy one. He was being dragged back from the memory of the sunlit down and the quick, laughing girl, back to this unhealthy, overheated room and its complaining occupant.