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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.
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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.
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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.
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I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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Hillary wants to raise taxes. It’s a comparison. I want to lower them.
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There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.
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I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their ability and work, they are not a second-rate or inferior people in comparison with others. On the contrary they are their equals according to all true standards of values and therefore entitled to equal rights in all respects.
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Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are ready, and may help bring about the fullness of time.
