Quotes About Comparison

She compares up, to the First World, where privileges are treated as rights. I compare down, to the apocalyptic Africa that presses in around us, where rights are only for the privileged. After covering wars in Mozambique, Angola, Uganda, Somalia, and Sudan, Zimbabwe feels to me like Switzerland.

You draw something...and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are praised, how come? ...... It's something to do with time.... You got a star because you spent more time on the second drawing. And spent the time in a particular way. We think they have a plan, and that it has to do with time. ...... There's no such thing as better....The second one just fitted in better with their plan.

Any grading system is meaningless. Every attempt to compare cultures with the intention of determining which is the most developed will never be anything other than one more bullshit projection of Western culture's hatred of its own shadows.

In other words, America performed terribly in the face of the crisis of European Jewry, except in comparison to every other country.

The US constitution is like Washington DC, a matter of columns and beautiful design, the English constitution is more like a forest, you can't build a forest, you can easily cut it down, and that is what we're doing, we're cutting down a forest that we can't rebuild.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

Mediocrity recognizes nothing higher than itself. It takes talent to appreciate genius.

description by the former girlfriend of a grossly overweight MP, who had said that making love to him was like having a wardrobe fall on top of her with the key still in the door. That

Tiene mérito: hemos conseguido crear la ilusión de que somos más sabios que las gentes de tiempos anteriores

Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.

And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”

Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ëSaul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousandsí?”

Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?

For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaohís chariots.

How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?