Comparison Quotes - Page 32

• Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.

  Perry Anderson

  Impact, Criticism, Orientalism

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• YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.

  Adam Rex

  Laughing, Car, Rooms

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.178, A&C Black

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• In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

  Michael Shermer

  Numbers, Google, Use

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.177, Henry Holt and Company

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• I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• 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 matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Leadership, Fall, Math

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• You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

  John Cusack

  People, Judging, Degrees

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• This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

  Robert Delaunay

  Art, Communication, Men

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• There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

  Dorothy Parker

  Blow, Fluff

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

  John McCain

  Political Differences, Matter, Conviction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Achievement, Form

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Support You, Editors

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• Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, People, Religion

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.245, Vintage

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• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Player, Different

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• My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  House, Special, World

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• It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

  Ashley Montagu

  Years, Doe, Delight

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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• Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

  Jonathan Swift

  Littles, Gulliver's Travels, Philosopher

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”, p.103

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• There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Home, Men

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• I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

  Taylor Momsen

  Trying, Agree, My Own

  "Dirty Pretty Thing: Taylor Momsen". Interview With Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2010.

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• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  J. Cole

  Kids, Cities, Downtown

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• 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

  Memories, Order, Mind

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

  Annie Besant

  Europe, Needs, Sides

  Annie Besant (1915). “How India Wrought for Freedom: The Story of the National Congress Told from Official Records”

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• Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

  Bob Barr

  Voting, Abuse, Problem

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• I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Thinking, Guarded, Northerners

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• For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Soldier, Purpose, Kind

  Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Keough (2013). “Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

  Samuel Butler

  Reading, Science, Light

  "The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition".

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