#contrast

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#contrast #dark #dark shadows #earth #lights

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

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

#business #career #climate #contrast #create

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#life #opposites #summer #winter #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

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#opposites #love

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#contrast #suffering

'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

#administration #because #before #bush #character

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#around #contrast #earn #economic #enables