Quotes About Comparison

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. That's how it is.

Americans spend more on potato chips than on recorded music.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

The ages thirteen to fifteen are a time of great intellectual development and energy that is largely wasted in the United States. Students this age in other countries work much harder than Americans, thereby putting Americans permanently behind.

The peer feedback she gives them is, Look in the mirror. I've got to tell you, you are not what Hitler meant by a master race.

We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.

By pointing out the errors of others, we strive to elevate ourselves above them.

Our tendency to point out the weaknesses of others is a way to avoid facing our own shortcomings and areas needing improvement.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

WHEN SOMEONE SEES his neighbor acquiring some worldly property, whether some kind of food or clothing, or a house, or accumulating money, he works hard to get the same, because he thinks, "If my friend has this, I should also have it!" —ORCHOT TZADDIKIM (1540)

That fellow couldn't count his balls and get the same number twice.

We like to believe that Man is in some subtle way superior to the rest of creation. It is best if he can be shown to be necessarily superior, for then there is no danger of him losing his commanding position.

A 1960 study of the I.Q.s of those completing Ph.D. requirements in various disciplines showed that natural scientists are significantly more intelligent than social scientists (although chemists drag down the natural science averages and economists raise the social science average).

And there is but a step from a she-ass to a woman.

Oh, I'm not perfect – not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad.

When two or more of their lighthuggers met, they would compare and update their respective nomenclature tables. If the first ship had assigned names to a group of worlds and their associated geographical features, and the second ship had no current entries for those bodies, it was usual for the second ship to amend its database with the new names. They might be flagged as provisional, unless a third ship confirmed that they were still unallocated.

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.

Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.

Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi are not too different political personalities.