Quotes About Contrast

Even between fanatical egalitarians, the briefest encounter reestablishes human inequalities.

Happy who in his verse can gently steerFrom grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

En la vida, en cualquier lugar, bien entre las duras, pobres, tristes y sucias filas de la clase baja, o entre las uniformemente frías y de monótona pulcritud de la clase elevada, y por lo menos una vez en la vida, el hombre encuentra en su camino una visión que no se parece nada de lo que ha visto hasta entonces, que despierta en él un sentimiento distinto de aquellos que le está predestinado sentir durante toda su existencia.

Entre las penas con que nuestra vida está tejida, luce siempre un chispazo de alegría.

Really it tires one to hear you. How come you always to be so cheerful?" "And how come YOU always to be so gloomy?" retorted the host. "How, you ask? Simply because I am so.

Com'è ripugnante la realtà! Che cosa è in confronto al sogno?

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Don't expect the LOVE hidden in a LOFT to be soft like a LOAF.

They open their wings, flash patterns and color, fly from flower toflower. I, with the dark brittles and many feet of the former form, inchalong the ground. Sometimes all I want is two armfuls of air, a fistful of sky.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.

Aside from the fact that she's a horrible human being, she's actually very nice." Rebecca

Washington? A city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Of all the gods nailed to the cross, Discord was the most beautiful.

palms and blackened

For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.

It was her clothes that did it...they clashed violently with the buff distemper of the walls.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

Der mystische Ausdruck ist ein Gedankenreiz mehr. Alle Wahrheit ist uralt. Der Reiz der Neuheit liegt nur in den Variationen des Ausdrucks. Je kontrastierender die Erscheinung, desto größer die Freude Des Wiedererkennens.

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.