Quotes about Contrast
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing.
- JRR Tolkien
I picture myself standing between two boxes. From one the stench is unbearably brutal, bellowing out dark wisps of death. And the other box is full of white lilies. Their angelic blooms are fully stretched and sending out perfume, sweet and pure. A box of bitterness. A box of grace.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy
It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples' feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.
- John Henry Newman
Love doth scathe The gentle heart, as northern blasts do roses.
- John Keats
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
- Dolly Parton
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
- Carl Jung
When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
- Mae West
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
- John Milton
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
- John Milton
Mustering their rage, and Heaven resembles Hell! As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please?
- John Milton