Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I… — David Macaulay Copy Share Image
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms;… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning.… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles.… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“They’re people,’ he said. ‘Full marks for comparative anthropology.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
