Quotes About Contrast

Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about the healing of stoneware pots.

For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

I've seen some of the most violent hard cases in the city twinkling through a quickstep and dipping into a tango with an aplomb and skill that would have earned them a guest spot on Come Dancing.

This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression

Isn't it rich?Are we a pair?Me here at last on the ground,You in mid-air.Send in the clowns.

Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"?

Thoreau was our suburban coyote [Edward Abbey].

Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, 'What are you doing here, you've never worked a day in your life!'.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Algunas personas se quejan de que las rosas tienen espinas. Yo estoy agradecido de que las espinas tengan rosas. ALPHONSE KARR, AUTOR

Is a thing most fully itself in the darkness or the light?

America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two?

You're in the lights and he thinks you're exposed, he's in the dark and he thinks he's hidden. But he's not hidden, he's dead, and you're not exposed, you're alive.

I looked out my window onto the street, the same street, the same buildings I always see, the windows that stare back at my own; and it was different. The moment was a different moment, of a different now. What I saw from my window was the other Twentieth Century rolling on by my own, like the other branch of a river that's been forked by an island long and narrow and knifelike: the same river but flowing by different shorelines and banks.

like a shaft of coal jutting from a glass of milk.

You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

The New Testament of grace is completely different than the one under which Israel lived in the narrative of the Old Testament Scriptures.

How is the Old Covenant like the New Covenant? It isn't!

Clouds don't matter much at night-time. It's only when there's a sun for them to cover that the world falls dark.

Snow sweeping downward, While the flowers reach upward-- Winter storm in spring.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.