Quotes About Contrast

Lila brought him to me, my hands still hot from battle, the smell of powder smoke about me, and I took him carefully, for I'd no knowledge of babies, and held him gently and looked in his face, his eyes squinted and dark, his face still red and pinched, but he looked at me and seemed to laugh and grasped my thumb and tugged strongly. Oh, he was a lad, that one!

right before a person freezes to death, he suddenly feels nice and warm.

One was a fast-talking, skinny white guy. With him was a big dude wearing a cowboy hat and boots.

Bad dreams are better than good dreams. When you have a bad dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Whew! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—wonderful! When you have a good dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Darn! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—rotten.

Love and a Dead Rat

oppositosis.

The bigger the storm, the brighter the rainbow.

And you're a maggot-infested string bean," muttered Louis. "What?" asked Mr. K. "I said, you're a magnificent human being.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter…

As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty.

If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what

As she said, she was "fond of luxury," and her chief trouble was poverty.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

He has thought of Jo in reaching after the thorny red rose, for vivid flowers became her, and she had often worn ones like that from the greenhouse at home. The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself; but next instant his American common sense got the better of sentimentality, and he laughed a heartier laugh than Amy has heard since he came.

She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful.

I put my hand on my chest and closed my eyes. I have a dinosaur heart, cold, massive, indestructible, a thick meaty red. And I have a glass heart, tiny and pink, that can be shattered. The glass heart belongs to Pollux. There was a ping. To my surprise, it had developed a minute crack, nearly invisible. But it was there, and it hurt.

To counter competition from gaslight, Edison based his promotional scheme upon a moral and aesthetic contrast between good electric light and evil gaslight.

Eliza increased her dependence on John, as if training him to be everything Bill wasn't.

One also suspects that the couple clashed as a result of their very similarity.

That he would give $100,000 one minute to charity and turn around and haggle over the price of a ton of coal.

His grandson wrote that Hamilton's personality was "a mixture of aggressive force and infinite tenderness and amiability.