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Quotes About Contrast

So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
~ William Carlos Williams
Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
~ Zhuangzi
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.
~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
~ Euripides
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.
~ Miles Franklin
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
~ Charlie Flynn
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
~ Christian Louboutin
There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.
~ Evan Esar
One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
~ Franklin P. Adams
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
~ George Orwell
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
~ George R. R. Martin
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Tanta juventud gozándose en sí misma, abrazados sobre la cama y yo con mi uniforme de niña de las monjas, moviéndome sobre tu cuerpo enfundado en un pantalón blanco, llenándonos de besos cuando todo estaba comenzando.
~ Teresa Calderón
He sat on his horse unmoving, a somber black figure in startling contrast to the vivid colors about him, the sun dazzling on his white gold hair. Unlike the duke and his bastard, there was no laughter in his face, and his eyes were not searching the housefronts for diversion-instead, he was staring intently straight up at my window.
~ Teresa Denys
A man and his art are like a fool and his king.
~ Terri Guillemets
There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom.
~ Terri Guillemets
The secret to living contently and sanely in this modern world is to... find the beautiful in the ugly — but don't get confused which is which.
~ Terri Guillemets
He was a meteor. Harriet was more of a mountain. In this world, we need both.
~ Terri Irwin
in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It's a straitjacket called fatalism.
~ Terry Law
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
~ Terry Pratchett
I wanted happiness that wasn't innocence. I wanted romance that wasn't tragedy.
~ Terry Woodrow
How can a river that rises in a black forest and discharges in a black sea be celebrated as blue?
~ Tessa de Loo