Contrast Quotes - Page 8

• In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.

  Penny Lernoux

  Numbers, People, Catholic

  "The Fundamentalist Surge in Latin America" by Penny Lernoux in "The Christian Century" (p. 51), January 20, 1988.

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• It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Practice, Psychology, Students

  George Trumbull Ladd (1895). “Philosophy of Mind”, Ams PressInc

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• Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

  Robi Ludwig

  Believe, Dark, Violence

  Robi Ludwig, Matt Birkbeck (2006). “'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

  Wesley Morris

  Hair, Land, Differences

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• What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  People, Understanding, Important

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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• In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

  Laura Bush

  Husband, Nuclear, I Can

  Dutch-Belgian newspaper "Metro", May 2, 2005.

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• If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

  John von Neumann

  Might, Transformation, Mathematical

  John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.632, World Scientific

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• The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.

  Charles Duke

  Beautiful, Moon, Sky

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• Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

  Stephen Leacock

  Might, Humour, Comforter

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.84, University of Toronto Press

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• The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That's what works in this digital age.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Character, Style, Age

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Satisfaction, Recreation, Creator

  Russell L. Ackoff (1994). “The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.

  Sarah Burton

  Beautiful, Clothes, Design

  "Sarah Burton Speaks About Her Role as Kate's Wedding Dress Designer" by Veronique Hyland, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 29, 2011.

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• Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Wall, Holiday

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.125

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• One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries - Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Intelligent, Two

  "The World of George Orwell" edited by Miriam Gross, (p. 167), 1972.

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• I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

  Amy Lee

  School, Different, Realization

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• In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Art, Perfection

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mirrors, Musical, Everyday

  Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig (1977). “A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.

  Sara Genn

  Fun, Choices, Intuitive

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• Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

  Sergei Bongart

  Color, Bells, Bigs

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Noble Man, Bridges

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.475, Modern Library

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• There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Simple, Men, Feelings

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• The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.

  Paul Tillich

  Attitude, Existentialism, Existence

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• [I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Justice, Funeral, Balance

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• In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Risk, Aversion

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