Quotes About Compare

#1. Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!

Zhuangzi

#2. When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

John Scofield

#3. Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body.

Ilchi Lee

#4. If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

Herman Melville

#6. Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

Tabitha Soren

#7. People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.

Leona Lewis

#8. Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Elizabeth Bibesco

#9. What is interesting is that elephants can accurately and reliably figure out who is friend and who is foe. Compare this to us humans, who still walk down dark alleys at night, fall for Ponzi schemes, and buy lemons from used-car salesmen.

Jodi Picoult

#10. I don't want to compare myself to anyone else, but there's Paul Smith, who I think does a great job. I feel like once I sort everything to the best quality, I'll be able to compete with them.

Rob Kardashian

#11. Girls rival each other. Women revive each other.
Girls empale each other. Women empower each other.
Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.

Ann Voskamp

#12. You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

Mark Hart

#13. and Derry (give me a minute, give me a minute), but there's not much to compare with the British Museum,

Anonymous

#14. How many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely ...

John Geddes

#15. We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

Betty Buckley

#16. To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Josh Silver

#17. Millionaire don't compare but prepare what they seek.

Dee Dee Artner

#18. Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#19. I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.

Mark Hamill

#20. No one can be compared with you and so no one can refute this

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

Noam Chomsky

#22. I can't compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other ... " She sighs. "It was the most love and the most pain and the most wonder I could have ever known.

Carrie Ryan

#23. I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Tucker Max

#24. There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

Roald Dahl

#25. The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

Scott Westerfeld

#26. If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Bertrand Russell

#27. I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

Mika.

#28. Don't compare your insides with someone else's outsides.

Jenny Lawson

#29. The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

Tahir Shah

#30. I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

Taylor Swift

#31. When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#32. I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.

Tom Monaghan

#33. Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.

Nick Vujicic

#34. People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

Megan Fox

#35. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

George Bancroft

#36. Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.

David Chang

#37. 2.223 In order to discover whether the picture is true or false we must compare it with reality. 2.224 It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false. 2.225 There is no picture which is a priori true.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#38. We oft question and compare ... Is the journey so important or the getting there?

John McLeod

#39. Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

Zhuangzi

#40. Straights don't compare themselves to us!

Larry Kramer

#41. I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

Wladimir Klitschko

#42. The joy at the dramatic return of the younger son in no way means that the elder son was less loved, less appreciated, less favored. The father does not compare the two sons. He loves them both with a complete love and expresses that love according to their individual journeys.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#43. Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

Henrik Ibsen

#44. Today's breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare.

Nancy B. Brewer

#45. Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an ironclad or a steam engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal.

H.G.Wells

#46. Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God

Anonymous

#47. There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.

Jon Ronson

#48. Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

Johannes Kepler

#49. Well, it's great that critics are comparing
me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.

Uncle Kracker

#50. Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

Rachel Roy

#51. Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

Assegid Habtewold

#52. Everyone carries around pain, and it's not fair to compare yours to someone else's because you are not that person, and that person is not you.

Nicki DeStasi

#53. Don't compare yourself to other MOMS ... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.

Tanya Masse

#54. As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.

Edwin Land

#55. I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.

Joe Royle

#56. Healthier organizations are possible when you stop comparing them with machines and, instead, compare them with communities.

Jurgen Appelo

#57. I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#58. You just kind of go and do your own thing. Sometimes it's really hard to compare apples and oranges, so you don't really think of it that way. You just perform to your fullest potential and hope everybody else does too. And however it works out, it works out.

Jennifer Nettles

#59. Shopping is a great way to bond with the girls, but it definitely makes us focus on our bodies and compare ourselves to others. Something that should be a fun outing with the girls can turn into an uncomfortable experience.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#60. To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

Thomas Hobbes

#61. I think breeds of dogs and breeds of men are quite a bit alike. If you think it's insulting that I compare people with animals, well, if you knew how I love animals, you would understand that coming from me, this is a compliment.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#62. We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.

Moses Mendelssohn

#63. Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#64. Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#65. Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

Sammy Sosa

#66. Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?

Trisha Goddard

#67. It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.

Kurt Vonnegut

#68. Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

Homer

#69. Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they've seen.

Andrew Dominik

#70. Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.

Mariane Pearl

#71. It's always difficult when people compare me unfavorably with other contemporary writers. It's much easier when they use examples from earlier eras of fiction. Because then I can say, Well, I may not be talented, but at least I'm not DEAD.

Tad Williams

#72. When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.

Ravi Shastri

#73. If you compare the number of children who are diagnosed as autistic64 to the frequency with which the term autism has been used in American newspapers,65 you'll find that there is an almost perfect one-to-one correspondence (figure 7-4), with both having increased markedly in recent years.

Nate Silver

#74. Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.

Julie Wilson

#75. The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

Jacquelyn Frank

#76. She became uncharacteristically silent, and I suppressed a chuckle. I knew exactly what Jax's body looked like. All of it. It didn't compare to Tristan's, but I could understand why Blossom would be impressed. The man-croc lacked nothing excpect hair

Kristie Cook

#77. But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.

Louis Tomlinson

#78. It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former.

Montel Williams

#79. You will be bitter in life, when you compare yourself with others.Run the race of life at your own pace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

Chubby Checker

#81. But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life ... as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures ...

John Muir

#82. It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

Roger L'Estrange

#83. I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#84. The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Steven Furtick

#85. It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Adam Sandler

#86. Live creatively, friends ... Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others (Galatians 6:1, 4).

Zig Ziglar

#87. I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

Halsey

#88. I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Arvo Part

#89. If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.

Chris Cannon

#90. Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.

Tavis Smiley

#91. We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

Shirley Williams

#92. When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.

Gary Zukav

#93. So many people are able to do something in life, but when they compare what they have done to their larger environment, they feel they have not done anything!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#94. There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#95. A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

Eckhart Tolle

#96. To achieve a higher consciousness, fill your heart with love and forget to judge, compete, or compare.

Debasish Mridha

#97. It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in exchange for the inferiority he confesses to.

Jacques Ranciere

#98. Mediocrity has nothing to do with how you compare to other people; it's simply a result of not making the commitment to continuously learn, grow, and improve yourself.

Hal Elrod

#99. No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history.

Neymar

#100. The easiest way for Americans to make sense of Chinese history is to compare everything to Jewish history. There's an analogue for everything. Torah: Analects. Curly sideburns: long ponytails. Mantou: bagels.

Eddie Huang