Comparison Quotes - Page 14

• Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Delicacy, Refinement

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". No. 131, 1665 - 1678.

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• [Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work would not have been possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Attitude, Philosophy

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• The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

  William Butler Yeats

  Artist, Style, Alchemist

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• I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Thinking, Past, Technology

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• The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

  Virginia Woolf

  Opposites, Differences, Judging

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3815, Delphi Classics

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• American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Girl, School, Air

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• I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

  Ehud Olmert

  Thinking, Iran, Dangerous

  "OLMERT: Iran hasn’t crossed line yet". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

  Sigmar Polke

  People, Trying, Painter

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• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Appreciate

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• The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn.

  Miles Teller

  Makers, Young, Screening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Children, Brain, Age

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• The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Believe, Science

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• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.

  Gavyn Davies

  Son, Past, Blue

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• My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

  Kurt Bills

  Philosophy, Reality, People

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• There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

  Jonathan Ames

  Suffering, Young Writers, Young

  Jonathan Ames (2007). “I Love You More Than You Know: Essays”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Long, Notion

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• The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.

  Chris Evert

  Baby, Book, Winning

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• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Real, Cutting, Giving

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• Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Excellence, Lasts

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• Frankly speaking, I hate comparisons. Two individuals are doing two different films, playing two different characters: how can you compare them? It is not fair to get into ratings. It really doesn't matter what I think about other actresses; what matters is what the directors think of them when they are casting them in a project, because I think it's the director who's behind a successful piece of cinema.

  Katrina Kaif

  Hate, Character, Successful

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• The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Imagination, Employment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1180, Delphi Classics

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• The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

  Paul Strand

  Gratitude, Thinking, Men

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• Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.

  James Marcus

  Mother, Memories, Voice

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• This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Ideas, Law, Physics

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

  David Alan Basche

  Couple, Guy, Trying

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