Quotes About Contrast

The error is needed to set off the truth, much as a dark background is required for exhibiting the brightness of a picture.

Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster

Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not.

A comparative adjective is appropriate when the two items are being directly contrasted, one against the other; a superlative can work when an item is superior not just to the alternative in view at the time but to a larger implicit comparison group.

You can only really understand something when you know what it is not.

A satellite photograph of Korea showing the capitalist South aglow in light and the Communist North a pit of darkness vividly illustrates the contrast in the wealth-generating capability between the two economic systems, holding geography, history, and culture constant.

However much one admires the improved views of the Boston waterfront, the lines of the stealth bomber, or the acting skills of Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean, or indeed of the gorilla in King Kong, this still seems like a very good deal.

To encounter erotica designed to appeal to the other sex is to gaze into the psychological abyss that separates the sexes. Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The contrasts between romance novels and porn videos are so numerous and profound that they can make one marvel that men and women ever get together at all, much less stay together and successfully rear children."64

The best way to understand an idea is to 'see what it is NOT' , so putting the alternatives to humanisation under the microscope can remind us what is at stake in advancing the ideals of the Enlightenment.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love.

Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.

I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

There are boys and girls, there is night and day, but above all there is love.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.