You Compare Quotes

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

John Scofield

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

Rush Limbaugh

#3. 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

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

Jon Ronson

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

Trisha Goddard

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

Ravi Shastri

#7. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. 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

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

Shirley Williams

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been.

Milton Friedman

#14. Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

Margaret Atwood

#15. My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.

Ray William Johnson

#16. This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

Seth Shostak

#17. We define ourselves by comparing ourselves to the things around us. But what if all those things against which you compare yourself weren't there. How tall would you be then?

Danny Scheinmann

#18. Why do you compare yourself to anyone else? To strangers, to what you think Tyler wants? Why can't you just accept who you are and who he is and let that be enough?

Staci Hart

#19. Your true situation will be found out only when you compare it to other people's situations.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. You should try to be nicer to the other horses. You're herd animals. Who will you run with if he goes back to tell the others of your two-faced personality? Who will you compare apple notes with? Soon you won't have any friends but me.

Cynthia Hand

#21. I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.

Mary Gaitskill

#22. If you compare it to 'Batman' and 'Superman,' the world of 'Green Lantern' is way bigger and potentially way more interesting in a lot of ways, I think.

Martin Campbell

#23. You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

Natasha Lyonne

#24. If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.

James Norton

#25. You see, you need to make sure you compare yourself to the right person. An elephant passes tons of waste but will never run as fast as the rabbit.

Raghavan Rajendran

#26. All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

Stedman Graham

#27. If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

Olivier Martinez

#28. When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

Ibn Hazm

#29. Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

Budd Schulberg

#30. When you compare yourself to others, you miss the miracle of who you are.

Mastin Kipp

#31. If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Max Ehrmann

#32. When you compare yourself against someone else, you always lose.

Toni Sorenson

#33. The baby turtles are turning away from the ocean. It's easy to see why. The black waves lap up the moonbeams, and the starlight on the inky surface of the water gives off such a pale glow when you compare it to the megawatt flashlights that Raffy is swirling in hypnotic circles.

Karen Russell

#34. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself ... Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Sylvia Plath

#35. Mads Mikkelsen's acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads' Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins' for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.

Caroline Dhavernas

#36. How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

Tim Roth

#37. Hatebreed is a fantastic band. They've been around for ten years and they're going really strong. But Hatebreed
when you compare them to Agnostic Front, we're two completely different bands. There are a few similarities, but Hatebreed is a lot heavier.

Roger Miret

#38. Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.

Louis Schwartzberg

#39. Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.

Natalie Valdes

#40. No one wins when you compare. You don't win. Your family doesn't win. Your friends don't win. You must be in control and not let comparison take hold of your mind. Rather, focus on yourself, your family, and where God has you in your life.

Jessica N. Turner

#41. What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

Andrew Tobias

#42. I mean if you look at the Charger and you compare it to other cars, the way the lines work, the tires, in 3-D it's gorgeous. One thing that we found was that the reflective surface was weird. It does funny things in 3-D. So you have to deal with that.

Todd Farmer

#43. I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.

David James

#44. Comparisons should be restricted to statistical figures and studies. When you compare yourself with others, two sorts of situations arise- You find yourself better than others You find yourself below others Both the situations could go against you.

Zayne Parker

#45. Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and female scientists with identical resources, you find that the women are just as likely to be successful.

Alison Gopnik

#46. If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Robert Ballard

#47. When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday!

Lewis Black

#48. If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

Izabella Scorupco

#49. We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

Niklas Zennstrom

#50. When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Alexandre Dumas

#51. Why do you compare yourself to others?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#52. The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

Merle Haggard

#53. When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Chuck Palahniuk

#54. You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.

Bill Hader

#55. If you compare statistics on different types of households, you find that the presence of an adult male means more additional work for the woman than the presence of a child under ten, even when the man believes himself to be sharing the housework equally.*

Mary Catherine Bateson

#56. 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

#57. 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

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

Mark Hart

#59. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

#61. 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

#62. 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

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

Rachel Roy

#64. 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

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

Jurgen Appelo

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

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Mariane Pearl

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

Jacquelyn Frank

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

Mark Messier

#77. It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.

John Wooden

#78. If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

Gerry Lindgren

#79. I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.

Pankaj Mishra

#80. Dear YOU, don't compare yourself to ANYONE. Your Unique Self is empowered, powerful, and unstoppable! Your uniqueness is what makes you incomparable! Don't underestimate the beauty of just being YOU.

Stephanie Lahart

#81. I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

Brooke Langton

#82. I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

Jamie Foxx

#83. I don't want to use Amber, I can't. It's not fair to her. I am not looking for someone to fill my heart or my mind or my bed, because when you are lucky enough to know exactly what you want then fuck the rehearsal. No one else will ever compare.

Katie Kacvinsky

#84. Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

Idries Shah

#85. Even if they are fictional, I always thought that mermaids were beautiful creatures. Of course, they don't compare to you, but still ...

Daniele Lanzarotta

#86. In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

Damon Runyon

#87. There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why? But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible

Beyonce Knowles

#88. I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

Sasha Alexander

#89. Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#90. There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else.

Zooey Deschanel

#91. Come on, you guys." Caraco leans back against the drying rack. "Can't you settle this some other way? Maybe you could just whip out a ruler and compare your dicks or something.

Peter Watts

#92. Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.

Tom Robbins

#93. The obvious question: Was it better to die now or go on living ashamed of the fact that you were still alive? Why wasn't that on the SATs? Compare and constrast.

Jerry Stahl

#94. Never never never compare yourself to the beautiful girls. There's always someone gorgeous who will make you feel like you're not. It's a total confidence buster!

Taylor Swift

#95. Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can't compare them, can't replace, can't repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.

Riana Ambarsari

#96. I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.

Joel Edgerton

#97. Prayer of Thanks Father, help me to love and appreciate the person You created me to be. I thank You that I don't have to compare myself to others in order to be accepted. You created me with a unique and wonderful purpose. I'm thankful that to You, I am special and beyond compare.

Joyce Meyer

#98. You ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled ...

John Geddes

#99. Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

Fred Rogers

#100. Please you can never compare to me, all these b****es is scared of me. I am who they couldn't even dare to be.

Nicki Minaj