Quotes About Contrast

Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.

averages: a few times I've been in rooms with a hundred ordinary people and my acquaintance Warren Buffett, which meant the average person's net worth in those rooms

A note on averages: a few times I've been in rooms with a hundred ordinary people and my acquaintance Warren Buffett, which meant the average person's net worth in those rooms was nearly $1 billion.

Ich spielte hauptsächlich auf den schwarzen Tasten; man kann sich besser daran festhalten.

Berlin vereint die Nachteile einer amerikanischen Großstadt mit denen einer deutschen Provinzstadt.

the assertion of an identity always proceeds through contrast or opposition;

A lot of people say they want to leave this city to go somewhere else. Not me. I love this place for what it is. Ugly and pretty. Rough and tender. Chaotic and smooth. Loving and murderous. All of it.

Ojalá el sueño fuera realidad y la realidad fuese un sueño!», pienso. Pero es imposible. Por eso, al despertarme, siempre estoy llorando. No es porque esté triste. Es que, cuando regreso a la realidad desde un sueño feliz, me topo con una fisura que me es imposible franquear sin verter lágrimas. Y eso, por más veces que me ocurra, siempre es así.

If all of life were sunshine, Our face would long to gain And feel once more upon it The cooling splash of rain. Henry Jackson Van Dyke

Tough as nails, sweet as peaches.

Julian: What's black inside, white outside, and hot? Jenny: What? Julian: A wolf in sheep's clothing. Jenny: Is that what you are? Julian: Me? No, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.

Light to darkness, Jenny. Darkness to light. It's always been that way.

There is no good and evil, only black and white. But either black or white on its own is boring, Jenny. If you mix them you get so many colors— so many colors...

Perhaps she'll find that real darkness is more to her taste than feeble twilight.

Why don't you sparkle?" -"Because I live in the real world, where vampires burst into flames.

In grace and beauty and sheer fascination, they were alike. But where Katherine had been a white kitten, Elena was a snow-white tigress.

That afternoon marked more than one change in Eustace's attitude towards life. Physical ugliness ceased to repel him and conversely physical beauty lost some of its appeal.

And I liked Ted Burgess in a reluctant, half-admiring, half-hating way. When I was away from him I could think of him objectively as a working farmer whom no one at the Hall thought much of. But when I was with him his mere physical presence cast a spell on me, it established an ascendancy which I could not break. He was, I felt, what a man ought to be, what I should like to be when I grew up.

El pasado es un país extraño; allí hacen las cosas de manera muy diferente a como las hacemos aquí

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.