Top 167 Comparative Quotes & Sayings

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.

I took a two-year break in college where I was just studying politics - I did political studies and became obsessed with comparative politics.

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

If you're running far behind in the polls and you decide to use comparative advertising, you have to be able to explain to the people why the incumbent shouldn't have then ob.

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

Vergleichende Anatomie der Engel. On the comparative anatomy of angels.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs?

Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

The comparative strength of each piece depends entirely on circumstance; their movements are so different that it is essentially impossible to effectively compare them on anything other than a case-by-case basis.

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.

What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they come from, who they are and where they're going, and what it means to be alive on the planet.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet's habitability and how they change over time.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage.

Whether we remain in the European Union will determine Britain's future role in the world and the comparative success of our economy for our children and grandchildren.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

By reducing trade barriers, improving intellectual-property protections, and setting international rules of the road, TTIP has the potential to improve America and Europe's global competitiveness and strengthen their comparative advantages.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.