Quotes About Comparison

The author's differing experience of school geography as a faculty member going from parking lot to parking lot and to locations centered around HER office and her experience of the more scattered life of a student speaks to a larger truth. As adults, we are used to following the same routine and look romantically on anything different.

Chamberlain -- he was bigger than Shaq, just as strong as Shaq, ran just as good as Shaq, rebounded better.... Everybody thinks the new players are bigger, stronger, faster and smarter. But they are not.

The problem probably started when I refused to call the process of purchasing the device an "upgrade." When I buy a new roll of toilet paper, I do not refer to it as "upgrading" my toilet paper even if, for some uncanny reason, the new roll is slightly better than the previous one.

My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league.

We should get jerseys because we make a good team, but yours would look better than mine cause your outta my league....

It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their own country.

On the other hand, I compared the disquisitions of the ancient moralists to very towering and magnificent palaces with no better foundation than sand and mud:

It is good to know something of the customs of different people in order to judge more soundly of our own, and so that we might not think that all that which is contrary to our own ways be ridiculous and contrary to reason, as those who have seen nothing have the habit of doing.

thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.

It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

The world's myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.

Why is it the most difficult to throw? Because it is the only one without a model. When

We were as competitive as only a child state can be.

It used to be that my age and waist size were the same size. Unfortunately, they still are.

Stella had seen his corduroy jacket and ostrich boots in the Neiman Marcus catalog, and together those two items cost more than her car.

Why must I still see myself in competition with him? I wondered. Shouldn't I be content to be a wife and mother?

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

las mujeres son como las ranas, que por una que zambulle salen cuatro a flor de agua.

Obviamente me siento mucho más cerca de John Berger o de Calvino que de García Márquez.

You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel for a while there

When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it shames me, it silences me, and leaves me inexcusable.

The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]