Quotes About Contrast

The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.

The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole scale of values.

To understand anti-Semitism within Germany's Gentile majority, one has to talk about the skills, educational fervor, and rapid social rise of striking numbers of German Jews. Only then will the contrast emerge between them and the relatively lethargic German majority, revealing why anti-Semitism could gain so large a foothold in German society. Only then can we see anti-Semites as people motivated in large part by jealousy and resentment.

But that's the modus operandi of fashion, isn't it—to move antithetically, almost Hegelian in its constant vacillation between seemingly opposing extremes?

...Tea, although an Oriental, Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast...

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds...

Living in Seattle is like being married to a beautiful woman who's sick all the time.

How can you, made of shining night, be love's jewel?

The gods give, like twin flowers, power and ruin, memory and oblivion.

Sabemos que a este hombre de batallas no lo volvió matonesco la montura y que, en cuanto bajaba, era civil, como si al general lo dejase en el estribo, y por añadido tan cortesano, que bailaba como si se pasara el día danzando sobre los tapices.

Vivo in una solitudine selvaggia e raffinata, misera e opulenta, dove le passioni ardono s'inceneriscono riardono incessantemente.

Pour elle, l'enchantement commençait. Pour lui, la pitié excluait déjà le désir.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

The walls of the bookstore have wood panels up to just above her head, but beyond that is blue wallpaper. Maya can't reach the wallpaper unless she has a chair. The wallpaper has a bumpy, swirling pattern, and it is pleasing to rub her face against it. She will read the word damask in a book one day and thinks, Yes, of course, that's what it's called . In contrast, the word wainscoting will come as a huge disappointment.

We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.

Babies move more than books and aren't as conveniently shaped.

She retraced the same route she and Sam had taken just that morning when the world seemed soft-focused and filled with possibility. The path now seemed dismal and dangerous to her. And she thought to herself that it was strange how quickly the world could shift. She let her mind go to the dark place.

He was tanned and buttery, like a quality handbag; his hair had the color and rigidity of onyx; his teeth were enormous white rectangles. He gave the impression of being handsome without actually being handsome.

His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.

Sadie loathed games where the box art was spectacular but when you went to play the actual game, it looked nothing like the concept art.