Contrast Quotes

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness.

Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.

I want people to see my unique charm I have in contrast to the other artists.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me.

Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys.

If Bernie Sanders hasn't been able to draw a contrast with Hillary Clinton, why is he doing so well, a guy - most people never heard of this fellow before this year.

The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.

I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.

We need a new approach to national security - a bold, progressive internationalism that stands in stark contrast to the too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism of the Bush Administration.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.

Democrats in the contrast with Republicans, almost no matter which Republican is nominated. Because they are taking such similar positions.

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

I typically go for a more classic aesthetic, though I like to contrast that with bold statement pieces throughout my house.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct