Quotes about Contrast

The opposite of bad is not good. The opposite of bad is love.

Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the one and rejoice and be inspired by the other. Or whether we will let one of them tempt us so far away from the other that we have a deeply distorted view.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

Do you know that St Matthew mentions Hell fifteen times in fifty-two pages of my bible and St John not once?

Phuong had kept us a table at the edge of the dance-floor and the orchestra was playing some tune which had been popular in Paris five years ago. Two Vietnamese couples were dancing, small, neat, aloof, with an air of civilization we couldn't match. (I recognized one, an accountant from the Banque de

God is a great gathering force, for by his very nature he is love; but the devil's work is to sunder, to set one against the other.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

to hike along a deep-rutted, pebbly lane in frail, silver-hued slippers with high French heels, is not an exhilirating experience.

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so to speak, with lantern light—it becomes an enemy.