Quotes About Contrast

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

The crow in his purity I believe is seen and heard only in the North. Before you reach the Potomac there is an infusion of a weaker element, the fish-crow, whose helpless feminine call contrasts strongly with the hearty masculine caw of the original Simon.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most delicate. The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.

Sometimes we have 2 Nephi 2:25 "joy" days, and sometimes we have Moses 6:48 "misery and woe" days.

contrary to an all-too-common misjudgement, it is not the case that theology and science are chalk and cheese, a matter of airy opinion compared with solid fact. Nor does the essential difference between them lie in a contrast between belief on the basis of submission to an unquestionable authority and belief based on grounds of rational motivation.

The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are.

for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside.

In the dark, all cats are black.

As a consequence, we must infer that man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God. Frequent

For he contrasts   shadows with revelation, and absence with manifestation.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

The morality taught by Paul and demonstrated by his converts was in stark contrast to the old, permissive morality of the ancient world. It was unconventional: It showed a love of man irrespective of his race, showed forgiveness instead of resentment for wrong, joy instead of grim endurance of adversity or oppression.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

This world was not like the world of his stories.

And why do you imagine that we would want beauty? Beauty mocks us, for we have none. Goodness appalls us, because we have no goodness. We are all that this world is not, and we are all that you are not.

through life in his vibrant plumage, advertising his presence, hiding nothing, but when he closed his front door behind him the artificial light in his eyes was suffocated, and the face of the Gray Man was pendent like a dead moon in the blackness of his pupils.

Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said "sixty springs" or "sixty summers," but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.)

A streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence.

Yet, despite the symmetry of the laws of Nature, we observe the outcomes of those symmetrical laws to be assymetrical states and structures.