Quotes About Contrast

The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other.

The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.

He felt as if he'd been shipwrecked on the Titanic but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite a few things in common with Hell. You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.

When one hungers for light it is only because one's knowledge of the dark is so deep.

If one believes in the light, one has to believe in the darkness as well.

their grotesque angels

You cannot have both. Riches and purity do not match. Humility hates pride." He paced in a circle. "You have been warned.

Everyone knows we need to have mud for lotuses to grow. The mud doesn't smell so good, but the lotus flower smells very good. If you don't have mud, the lotus won't manifest. You can't grow lotus flowers on marble. Without mud, there can be no lotus.

Gideon ist besser als Botho.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

Rosy-fingered dawn indeed! This dawn was wearing gray gloves.

First give them beauty. Then give them darkness.

She would sip an elderflower tisane and he would drink a dark, aromatic espresso.

I couldn't sleep in this racket.' 'That's birds and crickets,' she said smiling. 'Yeah, well, give me pigeons and cabs rattling across cobblestones and cabbies swearing. This green stuff's alright in its place, and that place is a park. Bloody blooming hell, something's just stung me!' In front of them, Joe snorted. 'What does he know? He wouldn't last half a day in London,' said Charlie.

I was in Chicago before I came here, but I didn't do so very much dancing. I had to work." He was thinking how such girls as she had everything, as contrasted with girls like Roberta, who had nothing. And yet, as he now felt in this instance, he liked Roberta better. She was sweeter and warmer and kinder—not so cold.

Bergždžiausias pasaulyje dalykas - bandyti tiksliai apib?dinti žmog?. Kiekvienas individas yra priešingybi? kamuolys, o juo žmogus gabesnis, juo daugiau jame prieštaravim?.

Cowperwood was shocked by the nudity of the Venus which conveyed an atmosphere of European freedom not common to America;

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.

I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.