Comparison Quotes - Page 15

• Everything pales in comparison to deer.

  Bill Vaughan

  Deer, Pale

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• Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

  Unknown

  Shopping, Online, Fantastic

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• I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Other Cultures, Values

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• My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.

  Lindy West

  Bricks And Mortar, Shopping, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

  Bill Vaughan

  Order, Years, Pay

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• The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained in it: but if the cask be staved in, the wine must perish.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Wine, Religion, Littles

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• Comparison leads to violence.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Violence

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't.

  George Pelecanos

  Country, Book, Cat

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• All creations are one with the universe. Look at the world around you. Can you effectively separate yourself from everything else? After seriously pondering this, most of us rapidly conclude that we cannot. To even make the statement that I exist as a unique entity requires comparison with something else. (If you exist as a distinct being, your distinctiveness is in comparison to other creations. No other creations, no individual you.)

  H. E Davey

  Unique, Meditation, Looks

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• There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.

  Willie Randolph

  Yankees, Red

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• The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Flower, Bees, Serpent

  "Morte d' Abele". Part I, 1732.

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

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• Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

  James Huneker

  Light, Monet, Turner

  James Huneker (1910). “Promenades of an Impressionist”

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• Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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• Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Inspiration, Sight, Documentation

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• And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Race, Ease

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.806, Delphi Classics

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• For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

  Aristotle

  Evil, Chosen, Greater

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1786, Princeton University Press

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• What you do is miniscule in comparison with what you choose to think, because your vibration is so much more powerful and so much more important.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Thinking, Important

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• [On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing! The want of the ballot is but a toy by comparison.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Clothes, Suffering, Sorrow

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• I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics.

  Jim Jefferies

  Giving, People, Gone

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Journey, Choices, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.304

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• The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Light, Landscape

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• Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

  Philip James Bailey

  Inspiration, Night, Light

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.208

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• Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Other Worlds, Knows, Ifs

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Daughter, Mother, Simple

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