Quotes About Contrast

Pero Jordan estaba a mi lado y, al contrario que Daisy, era demasiado prudente como para arrastrar, de época en época, sueños olvidados.

Même l'élégance efféminée de sa tenue d'équitation ne parvenait pas à dissimuler l'énorme puissance de ce corps

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.

They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. —

Economics versus beauty, a story older than Sheba.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

polish comes from the cities, wisdom from the desert.

At the Baron's elbow walked Feyd-Rautha. His dark hair was dressed in close ringlets that seemed incongruously gay above sullen eyes. He wore a tight-fitting black tunic and snug trousers with a suggestion of bell at the bottom. Soft-soled slippers covered his small feet.

non c'è nessuna cosa che si possa ottenere senza il suo opposto.

White for poison, black for purity," the Lady Fenring said. "A curious custom, isn't it, my love?

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

Matt Murdock is blind -- so he misses the prettiest morning of the year. All he gets is hissing pipes and an East Coast chill that goes straight for the bones

I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is...

I embraced a cloud, but when I soared it rained.

I stood leaning on the gates of hell with a cigarette in my mouth, and some trees were on fire and they resembled lilies in their white eternal flames, and I knew it appeared to the others that I was callously watching the world unravel.

Music without the ebb and flow would be like watching a film with only good guys in it.

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

Non esiste l'inferno. Esiste la Francia

For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.

I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms.