Quotes About Comparison

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.