Quotes About Contrast

Phuong had kept us a table at the edge of the dance-floor and the orchestra was playing some tune which had been popular in Paris five years ago. Two Vietnamese couples were dancing, small, neat, aloof, with an air of civilization we couldn't match. (I recognized one, an accountant from the Banque de

When something's one thing, it's not another.

Could life be so cruel yet so bounteous at the same time?

The first light had cast the first shadow.

chocolate sprinkles on rhubarb sauce over vanilla ice cream.

At least fifty people are sitting or standing within sight of me. The oldest ones sit on their stoops beneath dented metal awnings. The middle-aged stand in little knots, the men sharing bottles wrapped in paper sacks, the women holding babies. I don't see any teenagers—it's as though they've been drafted for some special war—but several toddlers walk unsupervised through the parking lot. Three of them are naked.

For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.

Red hair framed a face with a freckled nose, and her blue eyes had thick lashes like the undulating fringe of a sea anemone. But to Lara, the kind of beauty Shelly possessed was like that of nightshade berries. They appear to be delicious but are actually dangerous.

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.

The thought struck me that she would always look beautiful, even when she was being ugly. Hers was a big, lovely, empty face: the face of a pom-pom girl at a football match, the face advertisers use to help them sell preposterous and irrelevant things.

Niewiele ludzi umiera w Indyjskim Domu GoÅ›cinnym, gÅ'ównie tylko narkomany, takie chude. Dla was nie problem, wy takie piÄ™kne, wielkie, tÅ'uste.

True to the general rule of slum life that the more money one made, the more poverty-stricken one had to look.

m??czy?ni zdradzajÄ… swoje myÅ›li, odwracajÄ…c wzrok, a uczucia – wahajÄ…c siÄ™. Z kobietami, dodaÅ'a, jest dokÅ'adnie na odwrót.

And her forehead was always slightly creased in the centre, between the brows, as if she was grasping, in those soft folds of skin, the monstrous and pitiable understanding that no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.

It seemed impossible that a modern airport, full of prosperous and purposeful travellers, was only kilometres away from those crushed and cindered dreams.

I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were—how much industry and energy described their lives. Occasional sudden glimpses inside the huts revealed the astonishing cleanliness of that poverty: the spotless floors, and glistening metal pots in neat, tapering towers.

There was silence, where so much sound had screamed.

I tried to imagine what the vision of love she was clinging to might look like, and how different it was from my own.

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

It's hard to find evil in this world,' said the Witch. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.

If 'Sajjan Singh Rangroot' showed seriousness through the First World War, 'Carry On Jatta 2' had a great dose of comedy.