Quotes About Contrast

Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.

But even the most bitter fruit can contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

Is there some rule that says a young man can't be a handsome prince and a terrible bore all at the same time?

Opposites contend

A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.

An odd duck in a sea of well dressed swans.

My body is a whisper where hers is a shout.

He sat down facing Erica and began to dunk his cheese-and-caviar sandwich into the hot chocolate.

esvástica se recortaba aún visible sobre el fondo rojo y

Amy might have called him brave in that email but he was afraid of everything about Amy, especially her body, which had the terrible problem of being crippled and attractive.

war, the human antithesis of art

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured." As

I was on fire - or whatever the equivalent of 'on fire' is when you're 'in water'. ( En fuego sounds awesome. En agua , not so much. No offense, Michael Phelps. Or Aquaman. Or Nemo.)

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Disney world is an armpit,compared to Montana!!

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

we recognize all things by the existence of their opposite—day as distinguishable from night, failure from success, peace from war." We could add "safety from hazard." When

a great many people live in wonderful houses with a ghastly stinking cellar underneath. They never go down there, of course, but once in a while some creature comes up.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.

Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.

How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you've ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?