Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison…

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

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

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

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

— Pope Francis

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

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

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

— Barbara Kolb

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

— Graham Greene