Quotes About Comparison

After ~2 years with the iPhone and ~2 weeks with the iPad, it's actually the iPhone that seems like the weird size of the two...

Au diable la reconnaissance si elle est dispensée par des gens qui ne t'arrivent pas à la cheville.

the Irish priests sometimes considered their French-Canadian counterparts primitives.)

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

He had a face roughly the shape and color of a clumsily peeled Idaho potato, and he had a jaw like the end of a cigarette carton.

I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..?

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or them..?

amounting to .2 percent of the world's population. Although Jews have been around for thousands of years, they have the same number of members as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), which was founded in the nineteenth century. Their survival may well be impressive, but the fact that they have so few members

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.

Who me? God, no, I'm terrible . . . " Then, just as an experiment, I say, "And, besides, I don't think I'm good-looking enough to be an actor." Oh, that's not true! There are lots of actors who aren't good-looking . . .

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Dear Moldenke, Whether or not you have feelings for me, or feelings at all, I do have feelings about you. They increased when you compared my nipples to pencil erasers. No one has been so gentle to me. The clouds are promising rain. Love, Cock Roberta.

It seems ironic to acknowledge that a Catholic Mass almost certainly contains more Scripture than the average evangelical service.

For example, if you click Washington, DC, you learn that by 2080 it will feel like today's Greenwood, Mississippi, which is 9.8° hotter and 75% wetter than today's DC. And if you click Jacksonville, Florida, you discover that it will feel like the southern tip of Mexico—practically Belize.

Certainly metaphor is in some sense the opposite of concrete thing.

although metaphor undoubtedly deals in likenesses, similarity, it also deals in unlikeness and dissimilarity.

Metaphor makes us look at the world afresh, but it often does so by challenging our notions of the similarities that exist between things; how alike they are; and in what ways, in fact, they are irreconcilably unalike.

weighing only five grams (about the same as two dimes)

A plate of Ebola virions mixed with Hendra virions would resemble capellini in a light sauce of capers.

Socrates had it backward. He thought the unexamined life is not worth living. I think no one's life holds up to examination. The more time you spend thinking the more you notice that everyone else is doing something better or more important than you.