Top 290 Comparable Quotes & Sayings

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

At the very least, I want to be remembered as the most unique or one of a kind X Division Champion, who isn't comparable to anyone else.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.

The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.

Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

Nothing can be comparable to good health

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.

In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

There's nothing comparable to as 'in shape' as a professional dancer. You'd have to train eight hours a day for that.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

Liverpool is off the side of the known universe, and it always was. New York is the only other place comparable.

Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

I find no intellect comparable to my own

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

You cannot compare me to somebody who makes apologies for Hitler. And I don't think Putin is comparable.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

I know what New York is like when the Knicks are successful and there is nothing comparable.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable to that in the Middle East.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.