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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. -- Charles Dickens
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. -- Herman Melville
Contrast is what makes photography interesting. -- Conrad Hall
Contrast is the dramatist's method. -- Lord Dunsany
Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace. -- William Shakespeare
The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked. -- Bill Vaughan
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change. -- Gianni Versace
Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor. -- Alfie Allen
Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small. -- Sergei Bongart
Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood. -- William Cowper
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. -- Heraclitus
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. -- John Ruskin
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. -- Sigmund Freud
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
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. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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] -- Khalil Gibran
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves. -- Charles Caleb Colton
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. -- Maimonides
Contrast and compliment. The blue is never more blue than it is when paired with orange. And the orange is never bluer than when eaten on a cloud in the sky. -- Jarod Kintz
Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger. -- Sir Fulke Greville
The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, .. In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on. -- Craig David
Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone. -- Arthur Scargill
Three great ways to lose a lover: Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father. Berate him in public because everybody loves an audience. Contrast him to your friends, and compare him with his predecessors. -- Perry Brass
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. -- Samuel Johnson
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. -- James D. Watson
The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust. -- Anthony Kennedy
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people. -- David Lynch
Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism. -- Cynthia McKinney
But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful. -- Bill McCartney
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. -- Hannah Arendt
Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash. -- Pope Francis
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast. -- Leonard Nimoy
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. -- Leon Kass
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. -- David Lynch
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. -- Victor Hugo
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. -- Agnes Repplier
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other. -- Edmund Husserl
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life. -- Daniel Kahneman
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating. -- J. G. Ballard
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. -- Arthur C. Brooks
As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate. -- John Dykstra
Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. -- David Lee Roth
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. -- Voltaire
Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices. -- John Sununu
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing. -- Michael Azerrad
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. -- Noam Chomsky
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. -- Ben Shapiro
In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth. -- John Van Hamersveld
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen. -- Dan Stevens
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong. -- William A. Dembski
The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. -- Simon Sinek
I like change and I like contrast. -- Jimmy Page
The body learns through exaggeration and contrast -- Wendy Palmer
Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness... -- Ross Turnbull
Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth. -- Marcel Proust
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. -- Ambrose Bierce
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned. -- Natan Sharansky
In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear. -- Laura Bush
It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens. -- Helen Van Wyk
There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois. -- Scott Walker
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow -- Richard Wagner
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. -- Richard Rogers
I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features. -- Rita Ora
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me. -- Judi Dench
I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast. -- Sarah Barthel
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast. -- Sigmund Freud
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. -- Gustav Stresemann
The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting. -- Chris Hemsworth
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. -- Sidney Hook
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos. -- Bruce Pavitt
Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. -- Albert Camus
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct -- Kathryn Schulz
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness. -- Lin Yutang
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God. -- Beth Moore
I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. -- Esther Hicks
Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter. -- Osman Welela
Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast. -- Nicole Kidman
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. -- David Levithan
Willâ??s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys. -- Cassandra Clare
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. -- Bill Skarsgard
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. -- Mark Twain
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. -- Raymond Williams
Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love. -- Robi Ludwig
I want people to see my unique charm I have in contrast to the other artists. -- Yunho
My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. -- Tacitus
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. -- Lloyd Banks
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. -- Josef Albers
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. -- C. L. R. James
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast. -- Sara Genn
Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been. -- Ruth Ann Minner
All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive. -- Stedman Graham
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. -- Victor Hugo
We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations. -- Renzo Rosso
Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast. -- Walter J. Phillips
Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more. -- Darby Conley
The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed -- T. D. Jakes
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. -- Sigmund Freud
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. -- Flora Tristan
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. -- Clarence Budington Kelland
The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows. -- Thomas M. Disch
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. -- Jim Harrison
The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other. -- Lou Macari
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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. -- Carl Jung
We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. -- Geoffrey Blainey
Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge. -- Walter Guido Vincenti
Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. -- Nancy Gibbs
Democrats in the contrast with Republicans, almost no matter which Republican is nominated. Because they are taking such similar positions. -- Joy-Ann Reid

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