#inferior

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. ↗

— William Bligh

#bought #contract #fifteen #good #inferior

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#any #beating #believe #brazil #four

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#half #i #inferior #land #large

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#change #creative #hypnotized #images #improved

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. ↗

— Alan Kay

#artificial #artificial intelligence #complex #every #every time

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conscience #i #i think #inferior #leave

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#inferiority #shame #women #life

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#inferior #refuge #self #take