Comparison Quotes

587 quotes by 525 authors

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
There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel. — Dorothy Parker
YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,'… — Adam Rex
I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I… — David Ebershoff
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant… — Alex Garland
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The… — Muriel Barbery
Oh, my God. It hit me like a tsunami then: how perfect he was for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for,… — James Patterson
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the… — Blaise Pascal
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if… — Julia Cameron
What do I do? (Jeff) Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, butâ€¦run, Forrest, run. (Rafael) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We all think weâ€™re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations arenâ€™t met. But sometimes our expectations sell… — Shonda Rhimes
Whereas I think: Iâ€™m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which… — Ivan Turgenev
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much… — Douglas Adams
Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons… — Friedrich August von Hayek
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of… — Honore de Balzac
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its… — Henry David Thoreau
Beatrix puts a distance between herself and the rest of the world. Sheâ€™s very engaging, but also quite private in nature. I see the same… — Lisa Kleypas
I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public… — Margaret Atwood
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. — Aldous Huxley
Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more,… — Tim O'Brien

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