Quotes About Comparison

Potts aspired to be Rockefeller's equal.

Before Rockefeller's hair fell out, people noted the contrast between him and his often sickly wife.

Nothing in American history can compare with the scale of the domestic espionage of Operation Snow White.

Now I know that without mirrors we are different, we're not really the same...Maybe they had noticed us looking worriedly at other people's faces, as if we wee trying to see in them what we had become

That's just how it is, you know, she said. Women always choose men over other women.

She had used a simile, to explain and flatter and apologize all at once. She had written, "You're like New York City. I love to visit, but I could never live there.

I already know I'm smarter than an armadillo.

NOI BAI AIRPORT outside Hanoi and Hickam Field outside Honolulu share exactly the same latitude, so the U.S. Air Force Starlifter flew neither north nor south. It

No. My situation is not the same at all. It's like the difference between being alone and being lonely. Two separate, distinct things.

The Mohawk was in there, plus a couple of others that made the Mohawk look a model of probity. A

Better than Tennyson,' Reacher said. 'You have to give me that.

Great Dane the size of a pony, and a girl with a rat terrier the size of the Great Dane's head. Overall I preferred the rat terrier. Small dog, big personality. The little guy thought he was boss of the world.

He's smarter than me. I get things done better. He's more cerebral, I'm more physical.

He was close to Reacher's own height and weight, but slack and swollen, in a shirt as big as a circus tent, above a belt buckled improbably low, under a belly the size of a kettle drum. His face was pale, and his hair was colorless.

It lined up behind a 747 bound for Tokyo the way a mouse lines up behind an elephant.

He felt like Rambo even though he was built like Dumbo

Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.

Glaukon makes the issue manifest by comparing the perfectly unjust man to the perfect artisan, whereas he conceives of the perfectly just man as a simple man who has no quality other than justice.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two

That is, if the winners (at the left of the graph) continued to do better than the others, and the losers (at the right) worse, this graph should be nearly identical to the last.

When a teacher initially believes that one student is smarter than another, he selectively focuses on evidence that tends to confirm the hypothesis.