Quotes about Contrast

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

In philosophy, the opposite of truth is error; in Scripture, the opposite of truth is a lie.

Children contrast with the rich man simply because there is no question of their having yet been able to merit anything. Jesus' point is, there is nothing that any of us can do to inherit the kingdom. We must simply receive it like little children. And little children haven't done anything.

The "distant country" is the world in which everything considered holy at home is disregarded.

They who are at work abroad are not cold, but rather it is they who sit shivering in houses.

I'd rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion

With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

The character of Chandigarh appears to be slow, but people here are quite competitive.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.