Quotes About Comparison

I'm not Firestar! I don't even look like him, in case you haven't noticed.

Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all. (Pause.) It is true the population has increased.

The United States is today one of only three countries not to have officially adopted the French metric system. The other two are Liberia and Myanmar (Burma).

At a certain point as a child, we notice that the food at home is not the same as the dinners our friends eat.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Q: What do peanut butter and hookers have in common? A: Both spread for bread.

One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.

Will you be all right driving in this snow?" She found that hilarious. "This is not snow," she said. "Where I'm from, you know, you have snow when you can't find your car the next morning.

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly, sucks to be you, quadruped.

Driving yourself insane on the Internet is as easy as checking the weather.

You think I look like a teletubby?

I know that man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor one for the alms of my guilt.

Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature.

Like any two men or man-children meeting in the playground or the marketplace they quickly, almost instantly, calculated who could take the other.

He preferred women to men, and horses to both.

If this is Upper Silesia, one wonders what must Lower Silesia be like

with results that are not meaningfully better and are often worse.

but that was hardly a fair comparison.

The better way to look at the distributional effect of monetary policy is to compare changes in the income flowing from capital investments with the income from labor.

it is similar to the central bank balance sheets of other major industrial countries.

did not at first appreciate how academically disadvantaged I was—especially compared with classmates from elite prep schools like Andover and Exeter and top-flight public schools like Bronx Science.

I did not at first appreciate how academically disadvantaged I was—especially compared with classmates from elite prep schools like Andover and Exeter and top-flight public schools like Bronx Science.

I worried that Jorgenson would be upset if I chose MIT over Harvard