Contrast Quotes

I like change and I like contrast.

— Jimmy Page

Life really is a series of contrasts.

— George W. Bush

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

— William Shakespeare

Beauty requires contrast.

— John Gardner

I love to have contrast.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

— Sergei Bongart

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

— David Levithan

“that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other;”

— Lao Tzu

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

— Richard Wagner

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

— Beth Moore

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

— Alfie Allen

“Don’t ever let your deeds oppose the same thing you seek to promote! That is a big fallacy!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

— Sarah Barthel

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

— Victor Hugo

John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged…

— Murray Rothbard

The puberty train came late to the station for me. I was the shortest kid in my sixth-grade class - they made…

— Alex Hirsch

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

— Joy-Ann Reid

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . .…

— John Berger

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation,…

— Simon Blackburn

To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems…

— Alan Watts

E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in…

— Barack Obama

In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present…

— Anonymous

We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in…

— Brian D. McLaren

The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and…

— Arthur C. Brooks

It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment…

— Christopher Logue

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot…

— Walter J. Phillips

Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of…

— Theo van Doesburg

Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system.…

— Keith Devlin

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because…

— Bill Vaughan

The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work…

— Natalie Portman

That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and…

— Adrian Matejka

Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock…

— Stephen Covey

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not…

— Gabriel Zaid

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

— Chris Hemsworth

I've always been aghast at the contrast between rich and poor.

— Jean Marsh

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

— Chuck Palahniuk