Comparison Quotes

587 quotes by 527 authors

They donâ€™t eat that much.â€ â€œIn comparison to what? Starving marines? — Karen Chance
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She… — Yasunari Kawabata
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all… — Jane Yolen
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials,… — Susanna Clarke
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited… — BrenÃ© Brown
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison.… — Richard Dawkins
And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what… — Melina Marchetta
I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your… — Daisaku Ikeda
Comparison is the thief of joy. — Theodore Roosevelt
Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the… — Chuck Klosterman
...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done. — Myles Munroe
Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such… — Stephenie Meyer
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. — Thomas Carlyle
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from… — Jacob Bronowski
A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly… — Liane Moriarty
There's this book," Jared said. "And in this book a guy said that he would rather touch someones hand if she was dead than another… — Sarah Rees Brennan
To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is… — Charles Spurgeon

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