Quotes About Contrast

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

Success is always less funny than failure.

The truth is,' replied Dantes, 'that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.

He perceived then, at a glance, that this woman was young and beautiful; and her style of beauty struck him more forcibly from its being totally different from that of the southern countries in which d'Artagnan had hitherto resided. She was pale and fair, with long curls falling in profusion over her shoulders, had large, blue, languishing eyes, rosy lips, and hands of alabaster.

This other Musketeer formed a perfect contrast to his interrogator, who had just designated him by the name of Aramis. He was a stout man, of about two- or three-and-twenty, with an open, ingenuous countenance, a black, mild eye, and cheeks rosy and downy as an autumn peach.

Dac? e vorba de spectacol, îmi place mai mult s? privesc aceast? îngr?m?dire de copaci negri, printre care scânteie ici-colo câte-o lumini?? care trece ca un ochi înroÈ™it, când deschis, când închis.

Birinin yokluÄŸunun kederi, diÄŸerinin yokluÄŸunun sevincini dengeliyordu.

Geluk en ongeluk zijn geen absolute grootheden, maar bestaan slechts in verhouding tot elkaar. Men moet hebben willen sterven om te weten hoe goed het leven is.

My resolve is unwavering. But seek, Monsieur, and you will find: alas, every rich man has more than enough of poverty to pass by on his road through life!

besoin et nécessité sont deux synonymes entre lesquels il y a tout un monde d'intervalle.

Je n'aime pas les bruns qui chantent blond. –

Bonaparte chantait presque aussi faux que Louis XV

Não existe felicidade nem infelicidade neste mundo, o que existe é comparação entre esses dois estados, nada mais. Só aquele que passou pelo extremo infortúnio pode sentir a extrema felicidade. É preciso ter querido morrer, Maximilien, para saber como é bom viver.