Quotes about Contrast

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots.

The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.

I often marveled that the interior peace of the woman was reflected so faithfully in her surroundings. Even the selection and arrangements of her possessions gave an aura of uncluttered calm. In addition, there was a directness in her approach to all of life--including housekeeping--that never failed to fascinate me. Miss Alice was a person to whom color, symmetry of line and contrast of texture were important.

The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Funny that when skies were clear, he was the storm. But in the middle of the storm…He was the calm.

Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.