Quotes About Contrast

Yes, he was an old man but, gosh, those muscled limbs of his, the strength in them. She remembered how vast he had seemed, nude in the little cottage bedroom, like a giant folded up and tucked into a shoebox.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

One of the chief spiritual lessons of Christmas for Christian believers is the notion of social inversion, the world turned upside down. We can see this in the appearance of the incarnated God in a manger—an animal feeding trough—rather than a palace, and in the angelic first announcement of this miraculous birth to lowly shepherds rather than princes. The

An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get within. You see daylight on both sides, and the sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the night to make them seem what they ought to be--what they once were, before our ancestors' descendants demanded so much more money, in these so much more various days. ("The Striding Place")

Oh sì, furono giorni infelici, i più felici della mia vita.

Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.

In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

the English garden presented the reverse side of the tapestry, with rough, clotted textures, knots like fists and colours all running together.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

With people dying outside on the streets of Dushanbe, studying marriage rituals did sound exotic—if not irrelevant.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

En una bandada de blancas palomas, un cuervo negro añade más belleza incluso que el candor de un cisne

Oggi in Italia gli animi sono schierati in due opposti campi; da una parte i fascisti, dall'altra i loro avversari, democratici di tutte le tinte e tendenze, due mondi che si escludono reciprocamente. Ma la grandissima maggioranza degli italiani rimane estranea e sente che la materia del contrasto, scelto dalle opposizioni, non ha una consistenza politica apprezzabile ed atta ad interessare l'anima popolare.

Las ciudades desiertas o desenterradas son incomparablemente más bellas que las vivas.

IL LAMPO E cielo e terra si mostrò qual era: la terra ansante, livida, in sussulto; il cielo ingombro, tragico, disfatto: bianca bianca nel tacito tumulto una casa apparì sparì d'un tratto; come un occhio, che, largo, esterrefatto, s'aprì si chiuse, nella notte nera.

IL TUONO E nella notte nera come il nulla, a un tratto, col fragor d'arduo dirupo che frana, il tuono rimbombò di schianto: rimbombò, rimbalzò, rotolò cupo, e tacque, e poi rimareggiò rinfranto, e poi vanì. Soave allora un canto s'udì di madre, e il moto di una culla.

Plain boiled food, plain boiled thinking. Even his name is plain boiled: John. Maybe because I grew up with black bean sauce and hoisin sauce and garlic sauce, I always feel something is missing when my son-in-law talk.