The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Law of Attraction abounds, and when it is said to you, 'Ask, and it is given,' there is no more powerful statement… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please,… — George du Maurier Copy Share Image
The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses.… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that,… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations. — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
