Comparison Quotes

587 quotes by 527 authors

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to… — Nathan Myhrvold
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on… — Nathan Myhrvold
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that… — Mira Nair
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which… — Albert Pike
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance… — Theodore Roosevelt
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were… — Haile Selassie
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves… — Michael Shermer
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and… — Hu Shih
I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what… — Sonia Sotomayor
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and… — Sylvester Stallone
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many… — Stendhal
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. — Wallace Stevens
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're… — Taylor Swift
I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches. — Sachin Tendulkar
Comparison is an act of violence against the self. — Iyanla Vanzant
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well… — Alan Watts
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt… — Alexandre Dumas
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. — Jonathan Swift

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