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The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. — Clarence Budington Kelland

The Bible knows nothing of any contrast between truth and experience, head and heart, theology and practical living. — Michael S. Horton

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this. — Roy Lichtenstein

Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing. — David A.R. White

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. — Conrad Hall

Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony. — Maria Montessori

It takes darkness to be aware of the light. — Treasure Tatum

Doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct — Kathryn Schulz

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God. — Beth Moore

It creates an effective contrast, like riding a bike down a long and peaceful country road and every other hundred yards the bike turns into a bear. — Yahtzee Croshaw

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. — David Levithan

By contrast, all professional traders know full well that the market is a huge mass of people. — Anonymous

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. — Gustav Stresemann

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night - Woman thou art loosed — T.D. Jakes

If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is. — Tony DiTerlizzi

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 jeans. — Johan Lindeberg

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. — Agnes Repplier

The cool drizzle kisses my skin in a sweet contrast to the affectionate warmth from the sun, pushing me into a trance while I await his return. — Inger Iversen

A fish will not truly learn to enjoy water, without gasping for air. — Markus W. Lunner

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. — Richard Rogers

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo

It is springtime and I am blind ... Clarity depends on contrast - 134 — Daniel H. Pink

I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy. — Catherine Malandrino

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration. — Van Day Truex

evangelizing, proclaiming Jesus, gives us joy. In contrast, egoism makes us bitter, sad, and depresses us. Evangelizing uplifts us. — Pope Francis

These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were. — John McLaughlin

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been. — Ruth Ann Minner

That (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other; — Lao-Tzu

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. — Tacitus

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. — Sidney Hook

THE STRIKING CONTRAST — Erwin Schrodinger

Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked — G.K. Chesterton

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive. — Stedman Graham

I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away. — Melina Marchetta

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes. — Lauren Oliver

Average companies give their people something to work on. In contrast, the most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward. — Simon Sinek

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way. — Neal A. Maxwell

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. — Victor Hugo

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. — Chuck Palahniuk

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life. — Tom Robbins

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau. — Fredrik Bajer

Your lifestyle should contrast your obedience — Sunday Adelaja

In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes. — David R. Hawkins

Light can only be understood with the wisdom of darkness. — Ka Chinery

For Hegel, by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other — Francis Fukuyama

Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter. — Osman Welela

In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I'm a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence. — Caitlin Crews

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in
love. — Robi Ludwig

Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman. — Drew Hayes

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more. — Darby Conley

For there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville

grasp God's love not by likeness to human love, but in contrast to it. — Sheridan Voysey

In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love. — C.I. Scofield

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides. — Walter Kirn

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor. — Alfie Allen

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. — Edgar Allan Poe

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself. — Sigmund Freud

Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness ... — Ross Turnbull

People don't exist in just the light or the dark. They exist in the contrast. In the shadows where the two overlap. — Laekan Zea Kemp

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white ... to highlight that contrast. — Leonard Nimoy

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. — Esther Hicks

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow — Richard Wagner

What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast? — Laurie R. King

Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow ... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John — J.R. Ward

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength. — Carol Gilligan

I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two. — Anne Rice

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast — Wendy Palmer

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things. — Sigmund Freud

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

All life demands change, variety, contrast - else there is small zest to it. — Mark Twain

Real danger had its own taste, vivid as lemon juice, by contrast with the weak lemonade of imagination. — Diana Gabaldon

Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to keep its zing. — Dean Koontz

Life is not a series of events charged with elements of contrast, contradiction, or surprise. It is a deep, coherent, and unfaltering process. — Percy C. Ainsworth

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. — Dee Remy

The whole bioluminescent inkjob trend really didn't work for white people. Not enough contrast. — Madeline Ashby

The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves. — Thomas Nagel

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. — Albert Camus

I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.
I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival. — Ade Santi

I'm not pointing any fingers, but look at the places where beer is absolutely forbidden. It's easy to see the contrast. — Randy Mosher

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. — Nancy Gibbs

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. — Benjamin Disraeli

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. — Geoffrey Blainey

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman. — Zhuangzi

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other. — Lou Macari

Jenny was struck again by the contrast between his attractiveness and his shyness. It was endearing. — Katie Allen

I've liked you better when Katsa's around,' Giddon said. 'She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast. — Kristin Cashore

Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast. — Sara Sheridan

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting. — Chris Hemsworth

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. — Sigmund Freud

contrast! To live in peace, without — Karl Haffner

cash-poor executive, by contrast, will focus on increasing the value of the company as a whole. — Peter Thiel

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast. — Andre Maurois

The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws - which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior. — Robert M. Pirsig

Big contrast: While the foreign media are obsessed with Apocalypses, the Japanese people are already talking of rebuilding. — William Gibson

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities. — Jordan Peterson

So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him. — John Paul Warren

Some of your most powerful intentions are born in your moments of greatest contrast. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg