Comparative Quotes

I was going back to college for a while, but I never made it. I`m a real dropout. I wanted to do comparative religion and history, but I just couldn`t take three months off and go every day. I found myself having to work, and I`m just too lazy. I need three months off from music, but I can never get them.

Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, with suppliers such as Rio Tinto.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

At the same time, freedom of trade regardless of political control is diminishing the comparative value of extension of territory.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

There`s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it`s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

We expect the fourth quarter to be pretty dismal, and the first six months of 2002 could be unexciting. Then it picks up from there. On a comparative basis, it`ll look nicer than this year. I think we`ll be up high single to a low double digits.