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Comparative Quotes (page 5)

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees. Robert A. Heinlein
Anne Lamott quote: "Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides."
Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides. Anne Lamott
I can’t be sure, of course, but I’d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen Stephenie Meyer
Samuel Johnson quote: "[A]ngling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a..."
[A]ngling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. Samuel Johnson
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses... Albert Einstein
If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the... F. Scott Fitzgerald
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him? the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move? all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hugh Walpole quote: "I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of..."
I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams Hugh Walpole
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters..."
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. S. Lewis quote: "Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable..."
Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value [to Affection or Eros] or even a love at all. C. S. Lewis
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. Martin Luther King jr.
During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again. The winter of the avalanches was like a happy and innocent winter in childhood compared to the next winter, a nightmare winter disguised as the greatest fun of all, and the murderous summer that was to follow. It was that year that the rich showed up. Ernest Hemingway
Roald Dahl quote: "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination...."
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be. Roald Dahl
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. Carlos Fuentes
Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agreed with him, at least K. thought that was what he saw from the corner of his eye. But it was just as possible that he had not even been listening as he had his hand pressed firmly down on the table and seemed to be comparing the length of his fingers. Franz Kafka

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