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There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough. (Ken Livingstone)
I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there. View quote
Jayne Mansfield
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa-Who knows most, knows least. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures-a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one-there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.... View quote
Roger Zelazny
Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. View quote
Nhat Hanh
When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people. View quote
Eric Holder
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca. View quote
Irving Chernev
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Learn, compare, collect the facts! (Ivan Pavlov)
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond. View quote
Warren Buffett
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results. View quote
Anatol Rapoport
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed. View quote
Brené Brown
I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods. View quote
Flora Thompson
I don't think they (the Chinese) have better friends in Africa than us. But when we compare to how much money we get, if we succeed, if the MCA is funded by the US Congress for Tanzania, it's going to be $700 Million. It's going to be huge, it may be a total of all the Chinese have been giving us all these years. View quote
Jakaya Kikwete
If I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upward into a multitude of techniques and theorems while its root drives into the depths, then it seems to me that the impetus of the root. View quote
Gottlob Frege
We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today. View quote
Thomas Szasz
In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other. View quote
Matthew Henry
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer's lease hath all too short a date. View quote
William Shakespeare
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me. (John Keats)
Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Phythagoras, the other the division of a line in extreme and mean ratio. The first we can compare to a mass of gold; the other we may call a precious jewel. View quote
Johannes Kepler
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. View quote
Milan Kundera
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing. View quote
Marlee Matlin