Quotes about Contrast

The biggest boy was long and dark with Thomas Hudson's neck and shoulders and the long swimmer's legs and big feet. He had a rather Indian face and was a happy boy although in repose his face looked almost tragic.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

In a world gone harsh, you must have the courage to be tender as a blossom and tough as a diamond.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

God is the distance between light and darkness.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills.