Comparison Quotes

• For the first time there was constructed with this machine locomotive engine a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.

  

  Carl Ludwig
  • Life
  • Science
  • Enough

• That's one of the best conferences in the nation, and I'd like to play them just for a comparison.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Nation
  • Comparison
  • Conferences

• 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
  • World
  • Special
  • Comparison

• I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Ugly
  • Comparison

• The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Light
  • Groups
  • Comparison

• Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

  

  Iyanla Vanzant
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Comparison

• 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
  • Gold
  • Successful
  • Ability

• His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Mercy
  • Comparison
  • Judgments

• This is so personal it makes Chris Eubank look like an old friend of mine by comparison.

  

  Nigel Benn
  • Friend
  • Look
  • Comparison

• If Vasari really knew the nature of the Greek style of which he speaks, he would deal with it differently in what he says. He compares it with Giotto, but what Giotto did is simple in comparison, because the Greek style is full of ingenious difficulties.

  

  El Greco
  • Nature
  • Style
  • Difficulties

• Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

  

  Sunil Gavaskar
  • Generations
  • Conditions
  • Opposition

• Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Relation
  • Comparison
  • Apprehension

• And the media plays into his hand, every single time. By April 1, 2016, with a month still to go in the Republican primaries, Donald Trump had received the equivalent of $2 billion in free television coverage. All sixteen of his GOP opponents, by comparison, had received $1.2 billion combined. By the day of the November general election, Trump had earned just under $5 billion in free media—$1.75 billion more than Hillary Clinton.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Election
  • Republican
  • Coverage

• We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Purpose
  • Comparison
  • Distracted

• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder
  • Expectations

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