Quotes About Comparison

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

We predicate of the thing what lies in the method of representing it. Impressed by the possibility of a comparison, we think we are perceiving a state of affairs of the highest generality.

E' questione di misura, contentarsi. Uno si contenta di tanto, (fa segno col pollice sul mignolo) un altro ha tutto e non se ne contenta.

se un rosignolo dà via le penne della coda, può dire: mi resta il dono del canto; ma se le fate dar via a un pavone, le penne della coda, che gli resta?

Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn't look like Ariel.

Personally, I felt no urge to hook up with James. He was handsome enough, or whatever, but he reminded me of margarine. Sneakers that were still stiff from the store. Maybe a roll of thick, bleached paper towels.

Animals were self-contained and people seemed to hold this against them--possibly because most of them had come to believe that animals should be like servants or children. Either they should work for men, suffer under a burden, or they should entertain them.

There will always be people who are better off or who get good jobs or who marry well- whatever that means. We should be happy with what we've got.

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.

I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A

Conquanto fosse muito mais baixa que eu, dera um jeito tão superior na cabeça que parecia olhar de cima.

Os leitores ficarão conhecendo está nova personagem com a simples indicação de que era um segundo volume de Augusta; bela, como ela; elegante, como ela; vaidosa, como ela. Tudo isto quer dizer que eram ambas as mais afáveis inimigas que pode haver neste mundo (O segredo do Augusta)

The Christian paradise is a worthy emulation of the Muslim paradise; and as to Buddha's nirvana it is only a conceit of paralytics.

Do you are laugh because you are successful or because another one is unfortunate?

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.

Don't try to make comparisons. By whose standards do we compare?

how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.

Oh, girl, not woman, more than child, Which of us two is the more wild? So

There were women who fussed about their homes as if they thought life were a permanent examination where they would be found wanting.

But how could you measure your own pain against the pain of the world?

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

But the problem was, Sacks wasn't comparing herself to all the students in the world taking Organic Chemistry. She was comparing herself to her fellow students at Brown. She was a Little Fish in one of the deepest and most competitive ponds in the country—and the experience of comparing herself to all the other brilliant fish shattered her confidence. It made her feel stupid, even

The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the "Big Fish–Little Pond Effect." The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities.