Quotes About Contrast

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

The maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum

A rat is more alive than a turtle. A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin

Every soul is like a minnow Every mind is like a shark

The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Niente è la morte in confronto alla vergogna.

Ecco che lei torna alle parole che decidono, alle parole che dividono: migliore, peggiore; giusto, ingiusto; bianco, nero. E tutto invece non è che una caduta, una lunga caduta: come nei sogni...

And he was tortured not by the fact that Death was visible, but that both Life and Death were visible at the same time.

Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.

The people were less earnest than we, and might think less, but they all looked happy. Supposedly, dying is easier in the south.

pues no todo en el fuego es claridad, sino también leña bruta, y ceniza, y humo...

When people say they come from the country, they say it abjectly, apologetically. Unlike Londoners, Tokyoites do not drive out to the country at the weekend or yearn for a country cottage. Everyone, if they had the chance, would live in Tokyo. Four hours to the next train, while inconceivable in Tokyo, was only to be expected of inaka.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

delighted Rubens but would have appalled Vargas.

In fact, she realized when they finally found their table and sat down, every single woman at the banquet was dressed in some variation of back. Black silk, black chiffon, black with beads, black with rhinestones, short black cocktail dresses, black evening dresses, and even black pantsuits. All black. There was no way she was going to get lost in this crowd, not in her pink-and-orange poppy print

Paul McCartney makes lovely boutique tapes, resolute upon being as inconsequential as the Carpenters which in itself may be as much a reaction to John's opposite excesses as a simple case of vacuity. You could hardly call him burnt out-- Band on the Run was, in its rather vapid way, a masterful album. Muzak's finest hour. Of course he is about as committed to the notion of subject matter as Hanna-Barbera, and his cuteness can be incredibly annoying at times.

Alas ! the contrast between us, and what We can create; That man should be so little in himself, His works so great.

Hope and experience take two different sides of an argument.

It is said that springs of sweet, fresh water pool up amid the saltiness of the oceans, that the fairest Alpine flowers bloom in the wildest and most rugged mountain passes, and that the most magnificent psalms arose from the most profound agonies of the soul.

What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.