Compared Quotes
1068 quotes by 905 authors
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Well, there aren’t any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies,†said Tessa. “Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than my aunt Harriet’s. 
— Cassandra Clare
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and…
— William Goldman
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The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an…
— C.S. Lewis
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She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no…
— Lorrie Moore
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(Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else.…
— Taylor Swift
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I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that…
— Brad Meltzer
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So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
— Brad Meltzer
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Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To…
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not…
— C.S. Lewis
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The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star,…
— Carl Sagan
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If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means…
— Erich Fromm
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I’ve been thinking about that ever since. Am I lucky? Am I lucky that I didn’t die? Am I lucky that, compared to the other…
— Michael Thomas Ford
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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all…
— Lysander Spooner
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
— Oscar Wilde
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
— Emily Bronte
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Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
— Stephen King
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Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
— Gayle Forman
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I had just lot my best friend, barely escaped having my life sucked out by a psychotic burning girl, committed treason and nearly gotten the…
— Kiersten White
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