...success is not a comparison of what we have done with…

President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against…

— David Garrow

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one…

— Laurence Sterne

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

I feel I'm in 2006 form to be honest. I hear a lot of comparisons to 2004, but I never changed. Last year was…

— Alecko Eskandarian

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen…

— Hu Shih

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London…

— Clive James

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in…

— Anuj

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable…

— Charles Dudley Warner

I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at…

— Chuka Umunna

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I…

— N.K. Jemisin

I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they…

— Pope Francis

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

— Maria Montessori

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

— Graham Greene