Quotes About Comparison

We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

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.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

pity them. Matthew 19:24.

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.