Top 100 Quotes About Versus
#1. Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.
Joe Haldeman
#2. Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.
Mario Monti
#3. Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police - plastic swords versus batons. Percy wasn't sure what that was about, but he and Annabeth decided to keep walking. Sometimes mortals were even stranger than monsters.
Rick Riordan
#4. Tyler has left me to deal with our mess all by myself. It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.
Estelle Maskame
#5. A recurring theme in the book is instinct versus articulation. Although teen services people may know and understand issues on an instinctive level, they must be prepared to articulate these ideas in the face of threats to teen services.
Jennifer Velasquez
#6. The morning, when I need to have opinions and answers across the board very quickly, is a constant fight between ease and inspiration, what will make our lives easier versus what will make us excited because we were ambitious.
Allison Silverman
#7. The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
B. Joseph Pine II
#8. Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.
Robin Sharma
#9. These newspaper reporters ... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times ... have got a license to lie.
Edward Bennett Williams
#10. If we think of the novel and the epic ... The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero
a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.
Jorge Luis Borges
#11. A war was coming. No, it had already started. Vampires versus demons. Demons versus wolves. The enemy of my enemy ... Is my husband.
Cynthia Eden
#12. Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.
Craig Ferguson
#13. I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
Michael Nutter
#14. We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
#15. I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.
Julius Erving
#16. If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell
#17. Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.
Thornton Wilder
#18. In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think".
Sarah Vowell
#19. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
Bill Gates
#20. Then I guess this is Donovan versus Davis. See you here tomorrow at six. Don't forget your thong and your flogging thingy.
Dakota Cassidy
#21. As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.
Eric Balfour
#22. While we believe we hold the power to raise our children, the reality is that our children hold the power to raise us into the parents they need us to become. For this reason, the parenting experience isn't one of parent versus child but of parent with child.
Anonymous
#23. A person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them.
Francis Crick
#24. Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
Criss Jami
#25. Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.
James Chanos
#26. Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.
Robin Sharma
#27. The struggle in the Holy Land is no longer Palestinian versus Israeli, or Muslim versus Jew. It is between those who seek peace and extremists who promote terror.
George W. Bush
#28. The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.
Andy Ogle
#29. Irving Berlin said, "Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it." That doesn't mean it's good or bad - that's the equivalent of arguing the merits of hotdogs versus hamburgers. What the hell difference does it make?
Lester Bangs
#30. But one-hundred-million customers can't be wrong, can they?
Jenny Trout
#31. Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.
Yael Cohen
#32. It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
Jack Dorsey
#33. Your mindset matters. If you don't have the mindset of a wealthy person ("How can I afford it?") versus a poor person ("I can't afford it."), you will never achieve wealth.
Robert Kiyosaki
#34. There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction.
Mitt Romney
#35. We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that ... sometimes every week.
Melinda Gates
#36. Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain how imagination can transform not only events and people, but the artist as well, into quite different "realities".
Joan Lindsay
#37. A competitive advantage is not just strength versus weakness but how you are better than others in what you do.
Matthew Ashimolowo
#38. Lately I've been thinking a lot about leaving versus being left, and how obvious it is that leaving is easier. It was for me.
Sarah Protzman
#39. You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.
This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness.
Kristen Henderson
#40. There are never any victims who don't matter, because this isn't about men versus women.
Laura Bates
#41. Mr. Darcy is a construct designed to make woman feel bad about the partners that they're capable of attracting versus the fantasized image he presents.
Caitlin Kittredge
#42. I am not getting into the rarebit versus rabbit argument. Whatever you call it, it is still cheese on toast.
Nigel Slater
#43. Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.
Alexandra Robbins
#44. They hadn't even gotten their first paychecks yet, ... My biggest thing was giving them a sense of reality and what costs would be. We outlined costs and a budget, and by the time we finished they said they could take maybe one vacation a year. They started to understand reality versus their dreams.
Ron Pearson
#45. That's right, you and God versus me, Vincent Kennedy McMahon, and the product of my semen, my son Shane!
Vince McMahon
#46. Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.
Bill Owens
#47. What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.
Elinor Ostrom
#48. Anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's
Marlon James
#49. Quincy and Jake seem to be content to spend an enormous amount of time along together, which I count as romantic, but might simply be because they don't have a child: the Blues versus the world.
Sally Koslow
#50. I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
Nick Saban
#51. What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church.
Randall Terry
#52. It is really about 'right versus wrong.
Anonymous
#53. To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.
Zeena Schreck
#54. And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.
John Rowland
#55. Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear."
"Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?"
"I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.
China Mieville
#56. Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding
Sara Blakely
#57. People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.
Sonny Vaccaro
#58. He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.
Karen Marie Moning
#59. Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.
Philip Zimbardo
#60. We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.
Jenji Kohan
#61. We are not going to have a zombie-versus-vampire war through the streets of Dublin, Nathaniel.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#62. I think it's very important to know what you want to do next versus just leave it up to chance, really position yourself in the right footings to get to where you want to be.
Kellan Lutz
#63. We never try to kill; but, given a choice between killing versus being killed, I will pick us every time. Awesome
Pittacus Lore
#64. There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.
Len G. Murray
#65. Obsessing about one medium versus another is a waste of energy - it is the cultivation and management of ideas, and the people who generate them, that is the crucial factor.
John Hegarty
#68. I think that's his point," April said. "Not dumb, maybe. Just naive. I mean we come from a cynical age. Suspicious of everything. Maybe thats the advantage we have."
"Yeah our bad attitudes versus their swords and axes and giant wolves," Christopher said darkly.
Katherine Applegate
#69. On my season of 'Survivor,' the tribes were split: a tribe of men versus a tribe of women. Even though the women kicked the men's butts at the first two challenges, we were a hot mess at camp.
Jenna Morasca
#70. The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore
#71. I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.
Lee Westwood
#72. One must look at what is needed rather than what is wanted. This is the most critical point in making life easier and simpler - need versus want.
Glen Mizrahi
#73. One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically.
Kevin Rose
#74. If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.
Garrett Camp
#75. How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?
Michael Winter
#76. Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
Leo Tolstoy
#77. A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
Warren Farrell
#78. I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.
Daymond John
#79. Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.
Robin Sharma
#80. I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.
Mary Mattingly
#81. There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'
Buzz Aldrin
#82. It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Joseph Brodsky
#83. I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.
Laurel Nakadate
#84. Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.
Mario Batali
#85. But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A
Mark Krikorian
#86. Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.
Ice-T
#87. I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.
Debbie Harry
#88. We've gone down a road to which we don't have the answers for. That's why we have the schizophrenic decisions coming out of the Supreme Court that don't balance logically with one versus another decision.
Tom Coburn
#89. I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.
Chris O'Donnell
#90. I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ...
Nigel Short
#91. What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?
Francis Collins
#92. I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay ... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.
Carl DeMaio
#93. Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
Patrick Ness
#94. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.
Mira Grant
#96. I've always been interested with the idea of technology and the way technology affects our ability to communicate - our ability to have a rewarding experience with technology versus a kind of dehumanizing experience with technology.
Marco Brambilla
#97. Michaela, Sara, Michaela, Sara," she murmured in a mock-thoughtful voice.
"Bitch Goddess angel versus my best friend, gee, which side do you think I'll choose?
Nalini Singh
#98. 2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.
Narendra Modi
#99. There is a jarring disconnect between what I want my real-life intelligence officers to be doing versus what I want my fake TV intelligence officers to be doing.
Sarah Vowell
#100. Collective responsibility, a sense of the greater good versus just one's own good, and a strong set of collective values are imperative for improving society. These are the aims of all these pieces about our society.
Chetan Bhagat
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