Incomparability Quotes & Sayings

It is a curious fact of literary history that a story which describes the loss of a gigantic prize provided the author with the greatest prize of his career. - — Ernest Hemingway,

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. — Colum McCann

The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals. — Sabine Baring-Gould

One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain. — Bertrand Russell

The only thing I regret is that it ever ended. And I'm the one who's jealous. Insanely so. — K.A. Tucker

Because the roles maintain the balance of the system, they exist for the system. The children give up their own reality to take care of the family system - to keep it whole and balanced. Each form of abandonment breaks the interpersonal bridge and the mutual-intimacy bond. A child is precious and incomparable. Unless treated with value and love, this sense of preciousness and incomparability diminishes. In toxic, internalized shame, it disappears completely. — John Bradshaw

The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability. — Donald Davidson

But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. — Jon Ronson

The Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau