Quotes About Comparison

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin

Look what he married. Would you want to be her? She's a nice woman, but her greatest accomplishment is making three-dimensional snowflakes and Easter bunnies from Martha Stewart's book. Come on, Fiona, you don't want to be that.

Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.

I realize that I'm far less familiar with my own privates than with Guy's, and I've seen his only twice! I guess that's to be expected, since girls can't really look at ourselves without a reflection, whereas nothing's hidden with boys. It seems unfair, but there's also something neat about it being shrouded in secrecy.

That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy.

In 1800 probably only 2 to 3 percent of the citizens of the Ottoman Empire were literate, compared with 60 percent of adult males and 40 percent of adult females in England. In the Netherlands and Germany, literacy rates were even higher. The Ottoman lands lagged far behind the European countries with the lowest educational attainment in this period, such as Portugal, where probably only around 20 percent of adults could read and write. Given

Five hundred years ago, Mexico, home to the Aztec state, was certainly richer than the polities to the north, and the United States did not pull ahead of Mexico until the nineteenth century. South and North Korea were economically, as well as socially and culturally, indistinguishable before the country was divided at the 38th parallel after the Second World War. Similarly, most of the huge economic differences we observe around us today emerged over the last two hundred years.

But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances.