Comparison Quotes
587 quotes by 525 authors
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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
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
— Dorothy Parker
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What do I do? (Jeff) Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but…run, Forrest, run. (Rafael)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell…
— Shonda Rhimes
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Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which…
— Ivan Turgenev
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Beatrix puts a distance between herself and the rest of the world. She’s very engaging, but also quite private in nature. I see the same…
— Lisa Kleypas
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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
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
— Aldous Huxley
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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
Who Wrote These Comparison Quotes
525 authors contributed a total of 587 Comparison Quotes, led by these top contributors: