Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a…

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion…

— Samuel Butler

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers…

— Abigail Washburn

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

— Samuel Richardson

Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and one needs…

— Judith Butler

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.”

— G.K. Chesterton

As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all…

— John Tyler Bonner

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

— Ronald Knox

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that…

— Judith Butler

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

— Robert Genn

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need…

— Abraham Verghese

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up…

— David Macaulay