Quotes about Contrast
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Anger has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip."
— Robert Wright
The world says, "Push to the front of the line!" Jesus says, "Go to the back of the line." The world says, "Brand yourself and blast your accomplishments all over social media!" Jesus says, "If you want to be great you have to first learn to serve.
— Lisa Harper
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
— Laurence Sterne
That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.
— Alice Hoffman
Frances was sulky and suspicious, while Jet was kindhearted and so sensitive that a negative remark could make her break into hives.
— Alice Hoffman
For green is love and luck just as it is jealousy and envy
— Alice Hoffman
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
— Alice Walker
In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.
— Natalie Portman
Where all life dies death lives.
— John Milton
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
— Joseph Addison