#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

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

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

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes". ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#happiness #unhappiness #happy

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#brief #brief moment #christianity #contrasted #course

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world. Here, there was the taint of of deepest sin in the most sacred of quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#motherhood #sacred #sin #beauty

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ↗

— Herman Melville

#exists #itself #merely #nothing #quality

Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#dissonance #imagery #nature #life