Best Contrast Proverbs
443 Contrast quotes by 388 unique authors
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Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not…
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially…
— Emanuel Lasker
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I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
— Gianni Versace
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Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and…
— Ernest Dimnet
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As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the…
— John Dykstra
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My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him.…
— Jim Butcher
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A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us…
— Robert Penn Warren
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He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast…
— Jung Chang
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In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only…
— Georg Simmel
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling…
— Robin Hobb
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I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of the…
— William Anders
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It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we…
— Nick Bostrom
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Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.
— Beth Moore
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Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background…
— Leatrice Eiseman
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A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity…
— Tim Dorsey
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There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent,…
— Louis Bromfield
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The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings.…
— Edward Steichen
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Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs].…
— Richard Allen Epstein
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Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a…
— Arthur Scargill
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By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is…
— Owen Barfield
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Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling…
— Erich Fromm
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In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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