Incomparably Quotes

#1. In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#2. She desired her own body, newly discovered, intimate and alien beyond all others, incomparably exciting.

Milan Kundera

#3. God is the uncreated source and end of all things; one; incomparably alive; insurmountable in presence, knowledge, and power; personal, eternal spirit, who in holy love freely creates, sustains, and governs all things.

Thomas C. Oden

#4. To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#5. There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room, keep quiet when they are not wanted, and, when taken up, bring us face to face with the choicest men who ever lived, at their choicest moments.

Samuel Palmer

#6. Of course, everyone knew that Heaven was incomparably superior, but to Neil it had always seemed too remote to consider, like wealth or fame or glamour. For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that.

Ted Chiang

#7. European countries unresistingly submitted to the introduction of general military service
i.e., to a state of slavery involving a degree of humiliation and submission incomparably worse than any slavery of the ancient world.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.

William Jones

#9. As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised
As the mind deserts the body it has used.
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

T. S. Eliot

#10. Forgive those who trespass against you, so that God may forgive your trespasses, incomparably greater than the trespasses of others against you.

John Of Kronstadt

#11. The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]

Richard Baxter

#12. The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Edmund Burke

#13. I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

Hamish Bowles

#15. It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#16. Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

Jed Rubenfeld

#17. Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

Samuel Rogers

#18. It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Georges Courteline

#19. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.

Ernest Solvay

#21. I am incomparably, incredibly, overwhelmingly glad to be home. I've never been so goddam lonesome in my life.

John Steinbeck

#22. Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Abraham Cowley

#23. Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

Sigmund Freud

#24. Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven her spirit is at home with God!

Emily Bronte

#25. Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Francois Rabelais

#26. It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be incomparably superior to that of every other.

Rene Descartes

#27. There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

Evelyn Waugh

#28. Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.

Anthony De Mello

#29. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#30. Truly, by the watering of our Savior's blood, made with the hyssop of the cross, we have been restored to a white incomparably better than that possessed by the snows of innocence.

Francis De Sales

#31. I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H.L. Mencken

#32. Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes
America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we
have tolerated the last eight years?

Frank Zappa

#33. Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense.

William Bates

#34. She was, every time she saw him, making the picture of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, impossible in reality) fit with him as he really was

Leo Tolstoy

#35. As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

Lafcadio Hearn

#36. When Mother smiled, no matter how nice her face had been before, it became incomparably nicer and everything around seemed to brighten up as well.

Leo Tolstoy

#37. It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell; there is no disputing it.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer

#38. MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

Wilhelm Reich

#39. To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

Ivan Turgenev

#40. Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.

Wilson Bentley

#41. Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have this pathetic faith, without it mankind would not have the ever-renascent strength to go on living.

Emile Zola

#42. The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Raymond Chandler

#43. I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#44. May you know his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead.

Billy Graham

#45. The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Franz Kafka

#46. The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

H.W. Brands

#47. I think it's incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you..
even if it doesn't rhyme or even if it isn't very amorous..
even two lines of hatred written for you acknowledges the fact that someone spent a little of his time thinking about you.

Sanhita Baruah

#48. The most urgent and demanding question for Christian believers is not whether "a supreme being of some kind" exists, but rather whether this incomparably good and powerful and compassionate source and end of all things truly is as revealed in Scripture

Thomas C. Oden

#49. The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us ... than the need for any external expansion of our power.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#50. A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Caitlin Thomas

#51. I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.

Gottfried Leibniz

#52. Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#53. Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

Albert Einstein

#54. Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

Walter Benjamin

#55. Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.

Arnold Haultain

#56. For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Edmund Burke