Quotes About Contrast

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

But when there's light, there's darkness as well.

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.

It followed that the powers of light and darkness were not wholly and always opposed to one another.

the north and south ends, there wasn't much to Bridger's Wells: Arthur Davies' general store, the land and mining claims office, Canby's saloon, the long, sagging Bridger Inn, with its double-decker porch, and the Union Church, square and bare as a New England meeting house, and set out on the west edge of town, as if it wanted to get as far from the other church as it could without being left alone.

No one ever wins a generational war.

There was silence, all the louder for having been broken once.

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.

Their neatly barbered hair and tailored coats and silk ties contrasted strikingly with

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and cry for help?

In a sea of soaking-wet goths and metal-heads, she alone was completely dry,

We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.

o rir é, no fim de contas, uma variante de chorar...

And find that dark, too blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet, and dark wings.

We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving the world, when everyone around us cries. Stephanie

The violent contrast between the hot season and the monsoon makes the soil ricochet between swampy in one season and hard, parched, and cracked in another.

All of us identify who we are in contrast with who we are not, and the 'who we are not' changes all the time.

The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.

comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

Sounds painful, but the lady on the bottle is smiling

Sour apples neutralized chocolate. Bread neutralized hot, spicy foods

I was thrown in jail in Hungary, but it was like a five-star hotel compared to my time in our jails in Syria.