Contrast Quotes
Contrast Quote of the day
Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.
There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.
Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.
Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.