Comparison Quotes
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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
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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.
Chuck Klosterman -
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Everything pales in comparison to deer.
Bill Vaughan -
I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.
Bill Vaughan -
I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.
Steve Jobs
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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
Damian Lewis -
You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.
Kevin Keegan -
Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes.
Albert Bandura -
Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
Rachel Skarsten -
An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
Stephen Covey -
The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.
Eliot Spitzer
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
Jack Germond -
I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
Ehud Olmert -
I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.
Bret Hart -
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
Gaston Bachelard -
Personality begins where comparison ends.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.
Albert Einstein
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
Octavio Paz -
I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.
Jack Straw -
Hillary wants to raise taxes. It’s a comparison. I want to lower them.
Donald Trump