#contrast

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#buildings #classical #contrast #like #medieval

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#classical #classical music #concrete #contrast #expressed

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices. ↗

— John Sununu

#accurately #cannot #choices #contrast #differentiate

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#art #children #christianity #contrast #etc

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#contrast #life #life

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in theyear's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#happiness #sadness #life

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#contrast #suffering

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

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