Quotes About Contrast

Czyta?, LESEN, i ?y?, LEBEN, ró?ni? si? tylko jedn? liter?.

En el camino me resultaba sospechoso que arriba, en el cielo, hubiera algo hermoso y en la tierra, abajo, no hubiera ninguna ley que prohibiese mirar a lo alto.

Lá no alto, sobre a cumeada, uma mancha compacta de sobretudos verde-escuros feitos de agulhas. Por baixo, rigorosamente alinhadas, até onde a vista alcança, as pernas de pau dos troncos, que param quando paras, andam quando andas e correm quando corres.

Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis pastHow fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

When people call this beast to mind,They marvel more and moreAt such a little tail behind,So large a trunk before.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him.

The very reason which repels some is precisely that which appeals to others.

Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a rambling-rose design. Instead I'm on the rue des Cordeliers in pursuit of a baguette, with a three-inch blade for comfort.

Her hands were large and knuckley and calloused, made to hold a rifle, not a needle.

Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.

The day is a fiesta of pain.

How torturing, she thought, is the situation of fools who know they are fools; and how pleasant is Claude's state, by comparison.

The moon, as if disgraced, trails rags of black cloud.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart. . .

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.

A pregnant woman is a frightful object. A new-born child is loathsome. A deathbed rarely makes so horrible an impression as childbirth, that terrible symphony of screams and filth and blood.

Och vad är månskenet? Solsken i andra hand. Försvagat, förfalskat.

Una mujer embarazada es una cosa horrible. Un niño recién nacido es repugnante. Un lecho de muerte rara vez produce una impresión tan abominable como un nacimiento, esa atroz sinfonía de chillidos, porquería y sangre

We worked and governed with incredible elan. We really ruled. For the bureaucrats of the Ministry the contrast to the Weimar Republic was stark. Party chatter in the Reichstag was no longer heard. The language of the bureaucracy was rid of the paralyzing formula: technically right but politically impossible.