Compare Term Quotes

#1. The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

James K. Polk

#2. We have an endless supply of tears, but a limited supply of life.

Erin Butler

#3. In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

David Mitchell

#5. If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#6. You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.

Martha Moody

#7. What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

Mark Twain

#8. There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Moliere

#9. I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

Lady Gaga

#10. If you compare the number of children who are diagnosed as autistic64 to the frequency with which the term autism has been used in American newspapers,65 you'll find that there is an almost perfect one-to-one correspondence (figure 7-4), with both having increased markedly in recent years.

Nate Silver

#11. Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.

Brian Behlendorf

#12. The poets are wrong of course [ ... ] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

William Faulkner

#13. Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

George Clooney

#14. The Saviour is a life-giving light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

Craig Venter

#16. Nonsense!" said the Emperor - but in a kindly, sympathetic tone. "Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. For before your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may be preserved indefinitely.

L. Frank Baum

#17. The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Loren Acton

#18. The air is crowded with birds
beautiful, tender, intelligent birds
to whom life is a song.

George Henry Lewes