Best Contrast Qoutes
443 Contrast quotes by 388 unique authors
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
— Tacitus
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Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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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…
— Samuel Johnson
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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere,…
— Roland Barthes
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It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.
— Heraclitus
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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ...…
— Paul McCartney
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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
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I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and…
— Johan Lindeberg
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In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses,…
— Helmut Newton
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I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
— Rita Ora
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Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a…
— David Limbaugh
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Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more…
— George Gilder
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Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of…
— Gerhard Richter
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San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for…
— Christopher Moore
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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…
— Michael Azerrad
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No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which…
— Vicente del Bosque
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I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man…
— Charles Cumming
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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…
— William A. Dembski
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The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
— Chris Hemsworth
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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
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In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
— Leon Kass
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Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed.…
— Mark Zandi
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Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories…
— Yanis Varoufakis
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There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
— Bill Skarsgard
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