Quotes About Contrast

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Nuestra relación no era el sol, la luna y las estrellas pero tampoco era una mierda.

She's dark and heavy-browed and has a mouth like unswept glass—when you least expect it she cuts you.

The world was ice and the ice burned with sunlight.

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

Aqueles homens eram negros ou brancos, gordos ou magros, velhos ou novos, mas os olhos eram sempre os mesmos: vazios como ralos capazes de sugar o mundo inteiro.

that even within its ugliness, there lay a surprising beauty, breathtaking because it was so unexpected.

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.

I understood now: how nothing looked more beautiful than that scar of his, that borderline that separated what Jacob could have been had he stayed in that orphanage from who he is.

Leilani smiles. I'm surprised she knows how. For a second i'm certain she's isn't like Rosa

Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.

The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.

But darkness, too, really existed, as light's opposite pole.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

As she sat in the House Committee anteroom waiting to testify, she looked out the window and was startled by the contrast between Capitol Hill's marble government buildings, surrounded by manicured grounds, and the rows of tumbledown houses occupied by the city's Negro population. The children were barefoot and dressed in rags. "They all looked rachitic and most seemed undernourished. All they had to play with was junk they found in the street.

His informality contrasted sharply with the manner of General Groves, who "demanded attention, demanded respect." Oppie, on the other hand, got attention and respect naturally.

How can you do both? In physics we try to tell people in such a way that they understand something that nobody knew before. In the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite." Flattered, Robert just laughed.

Why do you think it's not possible? The sparrow can look up the sky and Garuda too can look down and desire the sparrow.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.