Contrasted Quotes

26 quotes by 26 authors

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a… — Simone de Beauvoir
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches… — Mark Twain
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that… — Charles Horton Cooley
Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts… — Norman Grubb
The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I… — William Klein
Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context… — Lucy Irvine
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have… — Carl Jung
The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity. — Basil Hiley
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler… — Asa Gray
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted… — George Edmund Street
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard… — Henry David Thoreau
Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness:… — Samuel Johnson
Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from… — Alice Hegan Rice
Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and… — Cynthia McKinney
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with… — Christopher Bailey
A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human… — Albert Einstein
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar… — Kurt Vonnegut
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God — R C Sproul

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