#contrast

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. ↗

— John Thorn

#april #baseball #because #contrast #dared

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me. ↗

— Judi Dench

#contrast #control #me #theatre #very

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#catholics #contrast #cultural #directly #general

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate. ↗

— John Dykstra

#based #bit #color #contrast #depth

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. ↗

— Flora Tristan

#contrast #england #exists #intellectual #revolting

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#access #anxieties #anxiety #attention #care

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America. ↗

— Toby Young

#britain #celebrate #chances #class #condemn

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#churches #comparative #contrasted #country #distinctive