Quotes About Contrast

Der kluge Idealismus steht dem klugen Materialismus näher als der dumme Materialismus.

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

The only thing the white men lack is something black.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Once the city gets into a ba-hoys sa-hystem, he loses the ha-hankerin' for the ca-hountry.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Always the following wind of history Of others' wisdom makes a buoyant air Till we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seem Abrupt, untrained, competing with no lie Our fathers shouted once.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

I see us as the dark and the light. Two sides of the same thing. You are bright and shining and I am a thing of shadows." "I will be your white horse and you can be my black," I murmured and held him closer.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

I disagreed with him about everything, but I admired him beyond words.

And never was piping so sad, And never was piping so gay.

An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

In a tragic contradiction between the normal and the exceptional, there is suffering, in a comic contradiction, none.

Nobody would call Miss Democracy anything but a plain girl, but when one compares her with the hags to whom millions are expected to pay court, she seems a very Helen.

The songs celebrates the order of the nature. When the scene is nice, the emotion are nasty, when the scene is nasty, the emotion are nice.

we know from the beginning that the darkness is beyond us there is no explaining the dark it is only the light that we keep feeling a need to account for

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.

It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.