Quotes About Contrast

The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

it any wonder I preferred the laughter of his house to the dignified silence of my own?

She was like an oasis in this scorching hot desert.

The warmth of hell would be a blessing after this. Do you suppose there is a cold hell for those who died in wintertime? - Fernandez de Anguilar

welcome sign that shouted: "We love visitors in Sunshine, Texas! Stay for a while—we'll make you smile!" Underneath that horrible threat was the number of idiots who lived here: 403. I was already claustrophobic. I preferred big cities with their bad drivers, polluted skies, shitty attitudes, and endless cheap motel and diner options.

Weil aber Jesus sich das Licht und alles andere die Finsternis nannte, darum haßten die Menschen dieses Licht und liebten ihre strahlende Finsternis.

To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215).

Es en la oscuridad donde se encuentra la luz.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Habíamos dormido en casas campesinas, humildes, sintiendo el roce de la piedra al lado de la almohada, el correteo de los ratones, el extraño crujir de las camas transportando suspiros desde los cuartos matrimoniales, los pasos balbucientes de un anciano y el sonido de caracola del orinal en la noche, el saúco en lucha contra el viento en la ventana, el ir y el venir de las contraseñas centinelas de los perros.

Thus in the plural use of the word "age" there is an element of optimism, in sharp contrast to its use in the singular, which identifies it with an inevitability, a fate with no future

In contrast, historical time is a concrete and living reality with an irreversible onward rush. It is the very plasma in which events are immersed, and the field within which they become intelligible.

when one expects pure and unmixed suffering, the smallest [10] joy becomes an unhoped-for surprise.

The dark and the light are braided and bound.

un cosmar e un vis care a imbatranit urat

Vad är det som skiljer oss åt? En ocean och två kontinenter eller åtta våningar?

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.

Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud...

But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so that, as he approached Swann, he seemed to be exhibiting at once an utter contempt for his person and the most tender regard for his hat.