Contrast Quotes

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan - because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

I like change and I like contrast.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.