Unfavorably Quotes

#1. It's always difficult when people compare me unfavorably with other contemporary writers. It's much easier when they use examples from earlier eras of fiction. Because then I can say, Well, I may not be talented, but at least I'm not DEAD.

Tad Williams

#2. For men, professional success comes with positive reinforcement at every step of the way. For women, even when they're recognized for their achievements, they're often regarded unfavorably.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.

Kingsley Amis

#4. It was a common tactic used by Southern politicians during civil rights protests: Sue national media outlets for defamation if they provide sympathetic coverage of activists or if they characterize Southern politicians and law enforcement officers unfavorably.

Bryan Stevenson

#5. Lucy's idea of sympathy compared unfavorably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

Robert Galbraith

#6. In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

William Ewart Napier

#7. I won't compare him unfavorably to Fucker,

Melanie Harlow

#8. Life Without Work
To do nothing
In this day and age,
When so much pointless work
Is being produced,
Could almost be considered an achievement.
It all compares most unfavorably
With my own imaginary
Body of work.

John Tottenham

#9. It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit.

James Mortimer

#10. I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

Renee Ellmers

#11. There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

Booker T. Washington

#12. There should be no fear of death, for the death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer life

Helen Greaves

#13. It really is about the heart of a woman that makes her beautiful.

Jessica Simpson

#14. Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.

J.C. Hallman

#15. When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

Zhuangzi

#17. But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

James Weldon Johnson