Quotes About Contrast

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

One difference between spiritual and ego law is that spiritual law is very playful and creative, while ego law is fixed and routine.

once upon an afternoon i became still-life i carried a balloon and a long black knife.)

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, otherworld.

He was now firmly of the view that if you wanted to see clearly how one person's character diverged from that of another, the most efficient method was to place both in identical situations.

The food at Pleasant's was almost as good as the coffee. Indeed, when he considered the two together, Poirot found it hard to believe what he knew to be the case: that everybody who worked in the kitchen here was English. Incroyable.

Like having a can of Coke after a long and thirsty game of tennis. Tastes better than any other can of Coke you've ever had. Marriage, by contrast, is like starting with a fizzy can of Coke and waiting around while it gets flatter and flatter.

I simply do not subscribe to the hypocrisy of sitting in a church surrounded by an overprivileged Society that sings alleluias on Sunday and practices hedonism the rest of the week.

What can we do without pain in front of happiness?

If you combine the suffering's great color palette you will find happiness as well.

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly. He froze. "I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing...but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

God Made Night but Man Made Darkness

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

I'm pretty sure if Socrates ever met a Kardashian, he'd have gone into the first bar and ordered himself a double hemlock straight up with a twist.

Are we alike In that in-betweenness? Can he see, When I smile my blue eyes back At his brown ones, The country-city-woman-girl Dancer, student Bewildered Unbelonging Yearning?

The contrast between the greatness of Greece's ambitions and the poverty of her resources put a special premium on outside support."2

Seen from a contemporary vantage point, not only is modern Greece definitively unrelated to ancient Greece, it may well be its antithesis.5

Most likely, this perception is an artifact emerging from the contrast between an idealized ancient Greece and its real modern version.

Unter jeder harten Bananenschale steckt eine weiche...Banane