Compared Quotes
1068 quotes by 905 authors
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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
— Walter Cronkite
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As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
— Dorothy Day
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The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were…
— Richelle Mead
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Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
— George S. Patton
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[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly,…
— Hugh Laurie
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He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
— Virginia Woolf
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only…
— Jim Elliot
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Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street…
— Billy Sunday
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Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed…
— Ann Aguirre
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I am a Stormdancer! Mere metal is nothing compared with the power of a storm." Kade made his voice boom and spread his arms wide.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the…
— Suzanne Collins
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How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes…
— Cassandra Clare
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Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must." "I'll stay," Will said…
— Cassandra Clare
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• This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must always be either…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to…
— Edith Wharton
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The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts
— Max Brooks
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