Compared Quotes
1068 quotes by 905 authors
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If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme…
— Nick Clegg
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very…
— Leonard Cohen
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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the…
— Tori Amos
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In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.
— Diablo Cody
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
— Peter Abelard
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies…
— B R Ambedkar
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Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to…
— John Lanchester
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Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.
— Dot Richardson
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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years…
— Vernon Howard
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When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
— Henry David Thoreau
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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion…
— Arthur Koestler
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I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
— Muhammad Ali
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The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the…
— Mark Helprin
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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
— Henry Mitchell
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with…
— George Santayana
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,…
— Olive Schreiner
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He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to…
— Celia Thaxter
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But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we…
— Hannah Arendt
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