Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition. — David Swing Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster]… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
The contrast between a figure such as Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire before he was 30, and Alfred Krupp, who spent 60 years… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image