Comparison Quotes - Page 27

• Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.

  James Elkins

  Moving, Giving, Looks

  "Are Artists Bored by Their Work?" by James Elkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I don't want to name names because I don't want to draw too many direct comparisons but the history of Fascism is populated by people who need to subjugate other people and elevate their status and power to a level which is supreme. Usually, any psychological study of those people will reveal a sort of lost, damaged child, who is somehow heartbroken and doesn't have any self-worth.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Heartbroken, Children, Self Worth

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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 that was, and she said, "If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll know it when you see it. You'll understand why the gods have made you suffer. Because that moment's reward will make your knees weak and everything you've suffered in life will pale in comparison.

  Melina Marchetta

  Suffering, Lucky, Knees

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• A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Men, Vicious

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

  Dean Koontz

  August, Two, Hot

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.237, Bantam

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• How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Expression, Kangaroos, Cosmos

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

  Joseph Heller

  Successful, Names, Two

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.

  Allan Bloom

  Greatness, America, Achievement

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Light, Darkness, Mysterious

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• In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.

  Anthony Daniels

  Memories, Past, Views

  "Selective Memory". www.city-journal.org. July 6, 2004.

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• Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Military, Democracy, Doe

  YouTube Chanel "drrosinha"/ "Dilma Rousseff e a resposta que demoliu o senador Agripino Maia (DEM-RN)", www.youtube.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Shopping, Fees, Lenders

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• There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'

  Al Franken

  Lying, Liars, Book

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• When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

  John Calvin

  Heaven, Earth, May

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

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• Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Horse, Perfect, Singing

  2002 In The Guardian, 7 Jan.

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• I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.

  John Constable

  Reality, Imagination, Looks

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Criminals, Elements, Force

  "The Hell of War" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 5, 2006.

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• If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Islamic, Thinking

  President's News Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2006.

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• Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Childhood, Agents

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• With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Imperfection

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.235

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• The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.

  Azar Nafisi

  Pain, Loss, Unique

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• Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

  Brenda Ueland

  Wonder, Reason, Said

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Boston, Years

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• My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

  Scott McClellan

  Criticism, Tone

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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 with elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions--all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taken, Opportunity, Government

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