Quotes About Contrast

That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can't turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Lo que para una persona puede ser una distancia prudencial, para otra puede ser un abismo.

The book was so clean and white, and the letters were so perfectly black and defenseless; it would have been like tearing the ears off a kitten.

Love was a paltry, meek thing; it was guilt that spoke in such operatic statements.

Luck is a fickle girl who doesn't like lingering in any one place; she strokes your hair back from your brow, kisses you quickly and flits away. Lady Misfortune, by contrast, presses you tightly to her loving heart; she says she's not in a hurry, sits down beside your bed and knits.

Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.

Sie war liebenswürdig und er liebte sie. / Er aber war nicht liebenswürdig / und sie liebte ihn nicht. (Altes Stück)

Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: 'Es liegt der heisse Sommer' There lies the heat of summer On your cheek's lovely art: There lies the cold of winter Within your little heart. That will change, beloved, The end not as the start! Winter on your cheek then, Summer in your heart.

It was technological and black and thin and therefore Evil, but... it was also a book.

What about you, this week? First you completely ignore me like some Hitler Youth ice-maiden, then you turn into an irresistible sex kitten, looking at me over the computer with not so much 'come-to-bed' as just 'come' eyes, and now suddenly you're Jeremy Paxman." We

In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.

We formatted our shows so that, at nine o'clock, we were in the heat of hard-hitting, fast-paced cruiserweight action, and it was so different from the WWE that it worked.

I am a ballroom dancer on WWE programming and in my personal life I am no dancer at all.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.