Comparison Quotes

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

Everything pales in comparison to deer.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

Brothers naturally invite comparison.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School - but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

I release any feelings of competition or comparison. I simply do my best and enjoy being me.

The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category.

Comparison leads to violence.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

... all comparisons injure.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.

No man is happy but by comparison.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.

In comparison, there's no comparison.

We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.