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Quotes About Contrast

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the forehead and dark brown, almost black, eyes that suggested a cross between an eagle and a raven. Hamilton had a light peaches and cream complexion with violet-blue eyes and auburn-red hair, all of which came together to suggest an animated beam of light to Burr's somewhat stationary shadow.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
~ Joseph Joubert
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
~ Joseph O'Neill
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
~ Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
Next to the old man's dark gravity, the boy's jingling colorfulness seemed even noisier and more radiant. At
~ Joseph Roth
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
~ Joseph Roux
by the cold light of the moon, Fireheart saw the powerful shoulders and broad head of the cat who had leaped onto the rock beside Tallstar. The other leader seemed puny and frail beside this massive figure. And with a cold shiver of dread, Fireheart realized that
~ Erin Hunter
Every cat looked sleek and well-fed; even slender Leafpool had grown quite plump.
~ Erin Hunter
The earth was darker on this side of the Thunderpath and the grass felt coarser underpaw. As they approached the foot of Highstones, the grass gave way to bare, rocky soil, dotted with patches of heather. The land sloped up now, toward the sky. Craggy rocks topped the slope, blazing orange in the sun.
~ Erin Hunter
Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and letting her head rest on his shoulder. God, he felt good. Her man. Where her head was meant to lie, right there, on him. "What's the difference?" "A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit.
~ Erin McCarthy
I told you just what she was—all velvet and claws!
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
~ Erma Bombeck
In contrast, games of progression offer many predesigned challenges that the designer has ordered sequentially, usually through sophisticated level design.
~ Ernest Adams
What's up?" "The opposite of down
~ Ernest Cline
Tenía una suave morenez, la piel del rostro muy tersa y tierna, que invitaba a ser besada, y los ojos negros muy luminosos—"la noche hecha luz
~ Ernesto Cardenal
As the sick man does not skip and leap around, his wishes do so all the more.
~ Ernst Bloch
The hooting of the owl with its tender wing is more familiar to me than the crowing of the cock. I prefer the strings to the woodwinds. Intermission: that is the darkness. The light feels like a vague scratching; it is malaise rather than pain. I am glad to sink back into darkness.
~ Ernst Junger
el miedo es la sombra oscura contra cuyo trasfondo aparece más multicolor y atrayente el riesgo.
~ Ernst Junger
Here the development has run full cycle. To Guercino's "Even in Arcady, there is death" Fragonard's drawing replies: "Even in death, there may be Arcady.
~ Erwin Panofsky
The living organism seems to be a macroscopic system which in part of its behaviour approaches to that purely mechanical (as contrasted with thermodynamical) conduct to which all systems tend, as
~ Erwin Schrodinger
There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks
~ Erwin Schrodinger
THE STRIKING CONTRAST
~ Erwin Schrodinger
THE STRIKING CONTRAST In biology we are faced with an entirely different situation.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Nothing like an orange and olive green-striped couch sitting on orange carpet and surrounded by dark wood paneling to get the inspiration rolling.
~ Erynn Mangum