Quotes About Contrasts

Northern New Jersey looks like a cluster of idyllic suburbs, but each of those seemingly normal towns has a dark side that's constantly gossiped about but never publicly acknowledged. They seem to thrive on their strangenesses.

When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport with your work that it would be you, and that would be all that was required. It would be honest, and the core of your personality would come out if you responded to position and contrasts in your work.

In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

Kirsten Gillibrand and I are very similar in our biographies. We're both mothers, we're both lawyers. But we couldn't be more different in our beliefs, in our principles, in our politics.

In Koreatown, the issues that they deal with are very different than the people in unincorporated East Los Angeles, even though there are some similarities.

I haven't seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities.

England and the U.S. definitely have their differences and similarities.

This is America, [...] where the maudlin happy end is as appreciated as a bout of self-righteous, gleeful slaughter.

Land of extremes. Land of contrasts. Land of surprises. Land of contradictions.... That is Arizona.

Aquella noche tuve una repentina antipatía por los tanques y una apasionada simpatía por el cielo.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.

People in New York go to Calcutta to get some relief from begging

When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other on quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate. The chief charm of New England was harshness of contrasts and extremes of sensibility - a cold that froze the blood, and a heat that boiled it - so that the pleasure of hating - one's self if no better victim offered - was not

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.

I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

He was quiet, yet fiercely devoted to his job. He hid a delightful sense of humor beneath a calm exterior. He approached life with a cool demeanor, but set her on fire with his passionate kisses. Tom Cameron was a study in contrasts, and there was nothing Jessica wanted more than to continue studying him.

The differences between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump in terms of temperament, in terms of values, couldn't be more stark.

Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.