Quotes About Contrast

They ranged from bleakly depressing (due to an excess of realism) to highly unlikely (due to an excess of optimism).

Agricultural bots have the statistically lowest chance of accidental injuries but are physically the most terrifying. It's weird how something designed to take care of delicate lifeforms looks the most like it wants to tear you apart and eat your humans.)

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.

from a small one. That's because, if you are looking at the original, its impact is physiological. In the same way, standing next to a big tree feels quite unlike being next to a sapling.

You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts.

Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water.

The houses and communities in North Carolina were more upmarket, carefully choreographed versions of the ones I had seen across the Russian Far East. How different, after all, is a look-alike house from a look-alike apartment building?

de-couple the animals themselves from the products on sale. This is a rule of thumb in the United States, but nothing you would ever see in Europe. Europeans have known extensive food shortages, and rationing, and Americans, fortunately, never have. When US tourists visit a marche or charcuterie in France, many are startled and even repulsed by the displays of meat and fowl

Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell side by side in the conscience. It is either grace or law. To muddle the two is to eliminate the Gospel of Christ entirely.

There are people in this life for whom even the best of things don't work out. They could wear cashmere suits and still look like tramps; be very rich but badly in debt; be tall but lousy at basketball.

a woman who had the face of an angel and the personality of a Doberman pinscher,

Caminó hacia el taxi erguido, algo envarado, metido en la prisión de un cuerpo que le estaba traicionando mientras su mente, sus recuerdos, su arte y su voz extraordinaria poseían aún la frescura de las sábanas limpias.

You never realize what a good girl means untill you Know a bad girl .

a reminder that the body beautiful was not so very far from the body brutalised.

Na literatura da Antiguidade, a autoridade da profunda voz masculina, por contraste com a feminina, é constantemente realçada. Tal como um tratado científico da Antiguidade afirma de modo explícito, uma voz grave indica coragem viril, uma voz aguda e feminina, cobardia.

Where do shadows fall when there is only light.

She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudness climes and starry skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death?

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

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

If hate is such a strong word, then why do wetoss around love like it's nothing?