Quotes About Contrast

It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.

The fatalism of Russian peasant proverbs is contrasted with the self-reliance of Chinese ones by

The contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage

But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word, the words themselves slanting steeply downhill, though the individual characters seemed as if resisting the descent, braced, climbing the other way.

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."

we are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss.

Sometimes beauty is like curse

yet the very name Ganga-Sagar, joining, as it did, river and sea, clear and dark, known and hidden, served to remind the migrants of the yawning chasm ahead; it was as if they were sitting balanced on the edge of a precipice, and the island were an outstretched limb of sacred Jambudvipa, their homeland, reaching out to keep them from tumbling into the void.

Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it.

Cat de mult seamana viata din zilele noastre cu un bal mizerabil: un pic de lumina, un pic de muzica, putin dans, apoi intuneric. Priveste. Luminile au fost deja stinse, resturile de mancare au fost deja aruncate cainilor.

I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

If her history has taught her anything it's that hate, not love, is the more powerful of the two emotions. Anyway

How is destruction beautiful? He asked in a challenging tone. You may think that a broken egg is ugly and messy, she answered, but the cake it goes into is beautiful and won't hold together without it. Eggs don't get blown up. They get broken. You've never seen me bake, she replied with a smirk.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

Too much happiness always overflows into tears of sorrow.