Comparison Quotes - Page 10

• Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

  Carly Fiorina

  Leader, Justified, Flattering

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Judgment, Traps

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• People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

  Yann Martel

  Men, Sea, People

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

  David Romtvedt

  Grace, Tolerance, Judgment

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• Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  New York, Home, Race

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• Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

  Cameron Diaz

  Self, Good Enough, Made

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• Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

  Benito Mussolini

  Government, Groups, Individual

  Benito Mussolini (2012). “My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"”, p.236, Courier Corporation

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• I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Form, Womb

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Men, Wind

  Roger A. Caras (1971). “Birds in flight”, Westover Pub. Co

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• I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

  Katherine Moennig

  Thinking, Loner, Would Be

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• I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

  Simon Weston

  Jobs, Serious, Wells

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grateful, Waiting, Feelings

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• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

  Douglas Horton

  Gratitude, Past, Feel Good

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• Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: 'I can do it better than you,' but simply: 'I can do it.' What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

  Ayn Rand

  Attitude, Effort, Consciousness

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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• You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]

  James A. Baldwin

  Gratitude, Pain, Thinking

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• The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Thinking, Quality

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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• Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

  Teju Cole

  Three, Influence, Mood

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Psychology, Disrespect, Mind

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as well. No doubt, the best available theories of today will look primitive in comparison with what we are in a position to understand hundreds of years from now.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Years, Psychology, Doubt

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Glasses

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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• The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality..

  Pierre Reverdy

  Reality, Emotional, Two

  "Oeuvres complètes" edited by Marguerite Bonnet, Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1988.

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• It wasn't openly talked about very much, in the sense that people said they wanted to beat GB at this or that, but there would however be sidelong comparisons frequently in press commentary. And it was also pretty quickly obvious that no other countries were developing the kind of technological depth of industry as were the US and the UK.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, People, Depth

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I think it's possible to a certain extent to make those comparisons. The problem is the detail with which the comparison can be made. Of course, the first place to make such a comparison would be to ask for a testimony from different people and have people report on what they experience.

  Antonio Damasio

  Thinking, People, Details

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Skin Color, Suffering

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• It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.

  Adolf Hitler

  History, Ego, Nazism

  Adolf Hitler (1938). “Adolf Hitler from Speeches 1933-1938”

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