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Quotes About Comparison

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.
~ Hideki Matsui
All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.
~ Tariq Ali
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
~ John Berger
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
~ Propertius
Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.
~ Ray Bradbury
A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
~ Samuel Johnson
Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.
~ Samuel Johnson
Just because you shot Jesse James...don't make you Jesse
~ Mike Ehrmantraut
Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals.
~ Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
~ A.C. Grayling
It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.
~ Jeff Cooper
The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.
~ Tony Robbins
Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.
~ Drake
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
~ Aesop
Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
~ Yao Ming
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
~ Maurice Chevalier
On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.
~ Kinky Friedman
Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
~ Kinky Friedman
I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.
~ Chuck Klosterman
But if the ants are not despondent because they have failed to produce a new social invention or convention in 65 million years, why should we be discouraged because some of our institutions and castes have not been able to evolve a new idea in the past fifty centuries?
~ William Morton Wheeler
Siempre es que, realizadas por otros, nuestras mismas acciones parecen más sucias
~ William Ospina
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
~ William Penn