Contrast Quotes

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.

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.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I like change and I like contrast.

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

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

Inclusivism: Whereas Exclusivists regard general revelation as informative only and special revelation as both informative and salvific, Inclusivists, by contrast, regard general revelation as both informative and salvific and special revelation as even mere deeply informative and even more effectively and widely salvific!

I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

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

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.

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

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

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

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Perhaps I am following in the footsteps of François Mitterrand, who really did want to shape Europe. My predecessors, by contrast, thought it was best to say nothing at all and to keep all their options open. That may sound like a tactical approach, but perhaps it was simply because they didn't have any ideas for Europe at all.

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 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.

Saudi Arabia stammering worldwide terrorism! Yeah, but Donald Trump went there and tackled it. You compare this to Barack Obama's mindless twaddling, whatever it was, the Cairo speech that no can still tell you what he said. The contrast is striking to me.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.