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.

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

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.

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.

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

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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