Quotes About Contrast

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Voltaire had observed, history is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

But, as Voltaire had observed, history is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Strange that the British, who so venerated their own churches, should thus have desecrated ours

I would have liked to stick my toes in the sand, or ride a tall horse. Today, I will go buy fifty pounds of cat food, and like it.

Must, never, must avoid, must guard: the minatory commands came the eleven times (from the departing Eisenhower). In contrast, Kennedy's rhetoric on January 20 with a cascade of permissions: the word "let" rang out 14 times.

Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.

Every day a wilderness—noshade in sight. Beulahpatient among knickknacks,the solarium a rageof light, a grainstormas her gray cloth bringsdark wood to life.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. . . . Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us; the other softens us. They go together. —PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. . . . Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us; the other softens us. They

Beyond the black is the light.

Between Dog and Wolf is, among other things, a sharply etched meditation on death and its inevitable aftermath, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's maudlin of depressing—it's an absolute delight to read.

Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

As I stood, I took in a last breath of spring-scented air, listened to the birdsong, and then saw a member of wildlife the conservationists hadn't planned on reviving in this place. A perv in a white shirt and polyester pants. A standard hide-in-the-bushes-and-whack-it perv. Fat and balding, it was as appealing as watching a giant marshmallow go at it.

Everybody loves your life but you

Concord village was an outpost of urban civilization in the countryside.

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.

It is much more profitable for salespeople to present the expensive item first, not only because to fail to do so will lose the influence of the contrast principle; to fail to do so will also cause the principle to work actively against them. Presenting an inexpensive product first and following it with an expensive one will cause the expensive item to seem even more costly as a result—hardly a desirable consequence for most sales organizations.

The house I got them spotted for looks really great after they've first looked at a couple of dumps.

They behave in accordance with what the contrast principle would suggest: Sell the suit first, because when it comes time to look at sweaters, even expensive ones, their prices will not seem as high in comparison.

Existe um princípio na percepção humana, o princípio do contraste, que afeta a forma como vemos a diferença entre duas coisas quando apresentadas uma após a outra. Em suma, se o segundo item for razoavelmente diferente do primeiro, é grande a probabilidade de vê-lo como mais diferente do que de fato é.

Life is not all glided out to the measures of a Strauss waltz.