Quotes About Contrast

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

You have to have a bad day every once in a while... otherwise you'll never know what a good day feels like.

Life's so ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence & absence to value presence.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Noses to the wind, we inhaled a farrago of scents: charcoal and jasmine, rotting fruit and eucalyptus, gasoline and ammonia, a swirling belch from the city's poorly irrigated gut.

Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.

Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. Why's

while the northerners offered a utopia that could be found nowhere, the southerners had created a Fantasia that could be experienced everywhere

We shared a passion for words, but I preferred the silence of writing while she loved to talk. She

appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed.

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy.

The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

Everything has its shadow if you bring it in the light.

Good looking and good luck rarely walk the same road.

Somewhere something is good for somebody as well as bad for someone else.

The brute is an imperfect animal compared to man who is a perfect beast.

The least is the worst enemy of the most.

There are lights in the streets and shadows in the house.

How else should it be done then?", was always the immediate question. The answer is simple: "Exactly in the opposite way that it is done today!

The Bible does not contrast between the native human abilities of the Christians and the non-Christians; rather, it makes a contrast between man's abilities and God's abilities – between human power and divine power, the wisdom of man and the wisdom of God. When these are pitted again each other, there is no contest, "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.