Comparisons Quotes
89 quotes by 86 authors
-
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
— Giacomo Casanova
-
Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more…
— Jamie Lee Curtis
-
Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of…
— Elaine L. Jack
-
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
— Samuel Johnson
-
Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place…
— T. Harv Eker
-
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
— Peter Singer
-
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of…
— Charles Dudley Warner
-
When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of…
— Michael Douglas
-
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.
— Paulo Coelho
-
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
-
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is…
— Desmond Morris
-
There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his…
— Tracey Emin
-
I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within…
— Ulysses S. Grant
-
Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists -- but there's never a backlash, no outrage to those…
— Hank Williams, Jr.
-
English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees…
— Tomson Highway
-
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and…
— Paul Pierce
-
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the…
— Franz Grillparzer
-
Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are…
— William Merritt Chase
-
Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.
— Mason Cooley
-
While I talked about comparisons between Cap and Cable, there's also a parallel with Tony Stark. Iron Man thinks of himself as a 'futurist,' Cable…
— Jeph Loeb
Who Wrote These Comparisons Quotes
86 authors contributed a total of 89 Comparisons Quotes, led by these top contributors: