God cautions us in Isaiah 55:9 that his ways are not ours and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts (undoubtedly one of the grander understatements). God is warning us that he is not logical and that believing him to be logical will lead to all k...
When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.
I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.
You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.
I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?
...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...
it may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that’s nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread.
Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
