Quotes Tagged "contrast"

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with a splitting headache before pouncing and flooding their brain with blood. It waits in alleys and metro stops. After the sun goes down plugs are pulled by white-clad guardians and death is invited into an antiseptic room. But in the country death comes, uninvited, during the day. It takes fishermen in their longboats. It grabs children by the ankles as they swim. In winter it calls them down a slope too steep for their budding skills, and crosses their skies at the tips. It waits along the shore where snow met ice not long ago but now, unseen by sparkling eyes, a little water touches the shore, and the skater makes a circle slightly larger than intended. Death stands in the woods with a bow and arrow at dawn and dusk. And it tugs cars off the road in broad daylight, the tires spinning furiously on ice or snow, or bright autumn leaves.

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Once you know true love you will never again be deceived by its counterfeit.

It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

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

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.