Quotes about Contrast
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women
— Oscar Wilde
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
— Pablo Picasso
Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.
— William Faulkner
When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray.
— William Faulkner
Purity, we see in the object-lesson, is NOT the one thing needful; and it is better that a life should contract many a dirt-mark, than forfeit usefulness in its efforts to remain unspotted.
— William James
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.
— Heinrich Heine
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
— Heinrich Heine
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
— Henri Matisse
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
— Leonard Ravenhill