Comparison Quotes - Page 11

• Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

  Edward Sapir

  Giving, Limits, Population

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.394, Univ of California Press

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• I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, Intelligent, Fire

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• Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Believe, Rays, Sugar

  "The sugar in the sweet science" by Ron Flatter, www.espn.com.

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• Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

  Teresa of Avila

  Loss, Upset, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Girl, School, Air

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• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Appreciate

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• The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn.

  Miles Teller

  Makers, Young, Screening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Children, Brain, Age

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• Comparison is the thief of all joy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Joy, Thieves

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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.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Waiting, Effort, Darkness

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• In comparison, there's no comparison.

  Ron Greenwood

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• I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Thinking, Past, Technology

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• In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

  Derek Bailey

  Thinking, Play, Absence

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• The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Simple, Sphinx, Faces

  "A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

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• The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?

  Brady Udall

  Sunday, Past, Wife

  Brady Udall (2010). “The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Mother, Daughter, Wife

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• The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Soul, Care

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects. With a memoir of the author, by S. Drew [&c.].”, p.357

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• Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Relax, Uniqueness

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• Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.

  Frank Hanny

  Real, Musical, Tone

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• I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

  Adam Arkin

  Thinking, Two, Healthy

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

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• With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Europe, Heaven

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.236

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• Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

  E. C. Bentley

  What Matters, Judging, World

  E. C. Bentley (2015). “The Woman in Black”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Conflict, Feels, I Can

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• The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

  Dorothea Brande

  Differences, People, Problem

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of God awaits those who have patiently endured. And all the glory of the world is nothing in comparison. My joy! I implore you to acquire a peaceful spirit.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  God, Peace, Healing

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