Quotes about Comparison

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.

This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.

It is only when we recognize our inferiority that we become superior to others.

Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

there seemed to be a higher code of ethics and sisterliness among those prostitutes than among numerous ladies of the church who have more men for kicks than the prostitutes have for pay.