Quotes About Comparison

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present. This

Lucy deploraba su actitud y los motivos que él daba. Ella siempre se ofendía cuando él hablaba de unos objetivos en la vida diferentes a los suyos, como si estuviesen atacando sus decisiones y opiniones.

Life in squats with my mother hadn't really prepared me for what to expect from the aristocracy. On balance, I'd have to say people were a lot better behaved in the squats.

We all wanted to be somebody else. Somebody braver, or more handsome, or smarter. It's what children want. It's what you grow out of, if you're lucky. If you don't, it's a lifetime of agony.

until recently our artists did better than the cave painters.

The usual strategy for coping with the discomfort of knowing that others are superior in some way is to try to reduce the inequalities by bringing the more fortunate down or by preventing him from being more fortunate. This is the strategy of envy.

the average number of legs in any human population is slightly less than two. So most people actually do have "more legs than average.

In his continent-spanning achievement his record perhaps even exceeded those of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Clive of India and Napoleon.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

As for the gates of hell, is there any other institution in Christendom which compares with this for immovability, authority and impressiveness?

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. —Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

Compared to Canada, Japan, or any nation in western Europe, the United States combines by far the most expensive system with the shortest life expectancy.

To a European, a hundred miles is a big journey; to an American, a hundred years is a long time.

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross)

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet

So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.

Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.

If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment.

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.

Guys getting in shape before joining an exercise class was not unlike the thing women do when they clean up before the maid comes.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

Of cliques, groups and social intrigues] ... why be alive if you can't like the battle of measuring your contempt or indifferent or interest against that of others?

When you compare the first three crashes of the 21st century to the giant crash of 1929, you gain a perspective of how truly "giant" the first three crashes of this century were.