Quotes About Contrast

she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust and sand.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

The darkness of the world is but a shadow, but there is light that causes the shadow.

You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth

Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon

you and I are black and white—a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender

A Ricky, que había adquirido una saludable falta de respeto por la religión en su ejercicio profesional, le gustó bastante la yuxtaposición del hospital para veteranos del ejército y las por lo menos seis iglesias distintas: era como si la dura realidad de los abandonados, representada por el hospital, sirviera para equilibrar en cierta medida el optimismo que circulaba sin control en las iglesias.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

and even had sex once or twice. Death and sex—close companions.

Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit.

Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.

I wouldn't want to be treading too close behind you with the Pyms and the Fermanaghs in this Lobster Quadrille. You never know, I might wear me brown boots with me blue suit, and that would never do.

It was the other man Hardy had noticed in the gallery. Reasonably good-looking, somewhat burly even in his tailored suit, Lightner sported a well-trimmed red beard under a head of dark brown hair. It was a striking combination that Hardy thought might come out of a bottle.

In 2010, the BBC spent nearly £230,000 on tea, but only £2000 on biscuits.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

Darkness and light are both alike to thee'.

In the midst of death we are in life

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

You can tell the staff footsteps from the patients'. The staff sound like they're going somewhere.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

I'm not President Bush