Comparison Quotes

587 quotes by 527 authors

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a… — Kurt Bills
I'm OCD beyond comparison. — Fred Durst
The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific… — Gavyn Davies
I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not.… — Ronnie Dunn
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that… — Sunil Gavaskar
If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I… — Dree Hemingway
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start… — Jeffrey Jones
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to… — Caroline Knapp
Brothers naturally invite comparison ... — Larry Watson
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence… — Norton Juster
The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. — William Butler Yeats
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means… — Albert Einstein
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and… — Miguel de Cervantes
Comparisons are odious. — Miguel de Cervantes
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family… — Charles de Lint
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. — Pietro Metastasio
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard. — James Huneker
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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