Comparison Quotes · Page 8

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

— Emile Durkheim

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

— Derek Bailey

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.

— Francis Bacon Sr

“Comparison is the root cause of all evil. Why compare when no two people are alike?”

— Haresh Sippy

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

— Soren Kierkegaard

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.

— Kevin Keegan

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

— Thornton Wilder

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

— Robert Genn

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

You get comparisons with anything in life. I think that if you [are] taking the time out to compare me to somebody,…

— Kirko Bangz

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment…

— John Hodgman

I love Messi with the ball at his feet: he scores goals and does all the rest, too. But Cristiano's numbers can't…

— Ronaldo

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties…

— Neil MacGregor

es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out…

— Kate Winslet

I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm…

— Keren Woodward

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that…

— Howard Carter

You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as…

— Rudyard Kipling

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated…

— Walter E. Williams

“Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and…

— Raheel Farooq

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference…

— Samuel Johnson

As a fighter, I pay very close attention to the amount of marketing that goes into and around my fights, and I…

— Demetrious Johnson

“Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.”

— Haruki Murakami

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

— Wallace Stevens

“Comparison drives you to the dead end of your dream, your vision and your destiny.”

— Euginia Herlihy

A lot of people say Klay Thompson. I get that comparison a lot. I like that.

— Devin Booker

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The worst thing you can do to a girl is compare her to another girl.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

— Brigham Young

When you are miserable, you need something that is even more miserable than you to feel good about yourself

— Elfen Lied

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

— Graham Greene

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

— Marilyn Monroe

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

— Gustave Le Bon

I don't compare myself to Lil Kim. I'm not doing anything in comparison with any girls. I'm doing Nicki Minaj.

— Nicki Minaj

People are very confused and wrong because there is no comparison between me and Canelo.

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

— Bjork

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

— Thomas Carlyle

Space is absolutely a 3-D world in comparison to our 2-D world on Earth.

— Sunita Williams