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Quotes About Contrast

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Oh, I simply can't think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is
~ Doris Lessing
I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.
~ Gwendoline Riley
Bitter love is better than sweet hate.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I like simple men and complicated women.
~ Don DeLillo
The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.
~ Mark W. Boyer
The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.
~ Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
People hear 'East Palo Alto' and they think, 'Oh, you're from Stanford.' They don't understand. It's like 'The Lion King:' You've got Pride Rock, and then you've got where the hyenas are. It ain't too far, but it's a completely different world.
~ Davante Adams
Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
While in 'Komban' I played the mother of Karthi, a relatively quiet character, the mother role in 'Kanchana 2' was a stark contrast.
~ Kovai Sarala
I am conscious that each film I do is in stark contrast to the earlier one.
~ Catherine Tresa
My character in 'Ivan Thanthiran' is in stark contrast to my role in 'U Turn.' Here, I play Asha, a hard working girl belonging to a middle-class background.
~ Shraddha Srinath
I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.
~ Meg Whitman
Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.
~ Tituss Burgess
Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.
~ Richard Cohen
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.
~ Steven Bochco
Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.
~ Molly Bloom
When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.
~ Charles Frohman
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.
~ Thomas Friedman
'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.
~ Josh Brolin
Obama's starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh's starting point, and Obama's rise was not as sharp.
~ Sanjaya Baru