Quotes about Contrast
What displeased Corporal Whitcomb most about the chaplain, apart from the fact that the chaplain believed in God, was his lack of initiative and aggressiveness.
— Joseph Heller
Actually although they can be connected, the two are very different things. Vine's
— Joyce Meyer
The emancipatory gift of YHWH to Israel is contrasted with all the seductions of images. The memory of the exodus concerns the God of freedom who frees.
— Walter Brueggemann
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
— James Buchanan
Contrast, as a result of that study, blessed and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we will begin to take on something of the glorious luster of the Lord Jesus Christ and will become increasingly like him.
— James Montgomery Boice
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
— Dorothy Sayers
so interesting and a really remarkable face, though perhaps not strictly good-looking, and all the more interesting for that, because good-looking people are so often cows.
— Dorothy Sayers
Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
— Stephen Hawking
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.
— Charles Spurgeon
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
— Cormac McCarthy
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
— GK Chesterton