Quotes About Contrast

brilliantly posing David in an effeminate contrapposto, his limp wrist casually holding a flaccid slingshot, conveying a feminine vulnerability. And yet David's eyes radiate a lethal determination, his tendons and veins bulging in anticipation of killing Goliath. The work is simultaneously delicate and deadly." Langdon was impressed with the description and wished his own students had as clear an understanding of Michelangelo's masterpiece.

Es al oír la voz del diablo cuando mejor podemos apreciar la de Dios.

BOTH READ THE BIBLE DAY AND NIGHT, BUT THOU READ BLACK WHERE I READ WHITE.

Mientras recorría a toda velocidad la recta del viale del Poggio Imperiale, se dio cuenta de la diferencia

You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

we pulled into the garden center, where "Carol of the Bells" was blaring out of tinny speakers that had been mounted on poles. It was like the kind of music you'd play if Santa was a serial killer.

It was fucking wonderful. It was fucking hell.

But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.

Philosophical poetry by moonlight was all right, but guns that shot straight and true were a necessity.

Finding a woman like that amidst the herd of half-feeling, half-caring, half-responding, females in our society of 1860's England was not so much like finding a diamond in the rough as it was finding a warm responsive body amidst the cold dead forms on slabs in the Paris morgue that Dickens had so enjoyed taking me to.

I've never been in a place that seemed as mean or shitty, and I've spent time in some of the great sewer cities of the world.

God Almighty, I love life. Even this vile place, where the trees are shattered stubs and where nothing grows but craters, even the sights, scents, sounds, and stirrings of this place are preferable to the unchanging nothingness of the Great Darkness.

If a man in a smoking jacket in a coal-fire-heated library in his manor house in London can understand that life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, then how can it be denied by a man pulling a sledge stacked with frozen meat and furs across an unnamed island, through the Arctic night under a sky gone mad, towards a frozen sea a thousand miles and more from any civilised hearth?

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries; nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

Thus, we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it. 

Lo que constituye la salvación de un hombre, es la ruina de otro

yet there would always be some difference seen between five-and-twenty and two-and-forty.

They say that when you're really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Dark, light, dark, light, dark-I swung and missed.

You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door and always having border disputes.

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

Benim ?????m?n senin karanl???ndan daha iyi olduÄŸunu kim söyleyebilir.

Qualquer um pode se sentir inteligente ao lado de um imbecil.