Best Contrast Sayings
443 Contrast quotes by 388 unique authors
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The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time…
— Rick Strassman
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I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it…
— Carlos Celdran
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For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money…
— Hans F. Sennholz
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind…
— Victoria Jackson
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It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush…
— Peter Beinart
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I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore,…
— George W. Bush
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as…
— George Eliot
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who…
— Alfred Nobel
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably…
— Edward Abbey
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious…
— Thomas Paine
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It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
— Henry James
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
— Adam Duritz
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Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.
— Darby Conley
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We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the…
— William Graham Sumner
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I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing…
— Meg Whitman
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The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am…
— Helen Keller
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I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a…
— Elvis Costello
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and the race against…
— Burton Hill
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Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business.…
— James Hansen
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A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things…
— Wynn Bullock
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It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I…
— Enid Bagnold
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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One,…
— Gautama Buddha
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