Comparatively Quotes
87 quotes by 80 authors
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He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every…
— Frederick William Faber
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I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for…
— William Randolph Hearst
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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse…
— Augustus William Hare
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Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the…
— Evelyn Waugh
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.
— Brian Aldiss
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For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the…
— John Roberts
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The study of comparative religions is the best way to become comparatively religious.
— Ronald Knox
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I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.
— Sharon Horgan
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and…
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
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One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that…
— Merrill C. Tenney
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WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to do. Man’s knowledge…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps.…
— Leo Szilard
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Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the…
— P D Ouspensky
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When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we…
— Craig Groeschel
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This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.
— Patrick Geddes
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The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We…
— Ernest K. Gann
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
— Samuel Smiles
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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of…
— Jane Austen
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