Quotes About Comparison

the literature student has learned to inquire, to question, to interpret, to critique, to compare, to research, to argue, to sift, to analyze, to shape, to express. His intellect can be put to broad use. The computer major, by contrast, is a technician - a plumber clutching a single, albeit shining, box of tools.

Despite the French passage of the Taubira Law in 2001, which recognized slavery and the slave trade as a crime against humanity, the French continued to believe they were never as bad as the Americans.

Piensa en ésto, cuando te regalan un reloj te regalan algo que es tuyo pero que no es tu cuerpo, que hay que atar a tu cuerpo con su correa como un bracito desesperado colgándose de tu muñeca. Te regalan la necesidad de darle cuerda todos los días, te regalan el miedo de perderlo, de que te lo roben, de que se te caiga al suelo y se rompa. Te regalan la tendencia a comparar un reloj con los demás relojes... no te regalan un reloj, tú eres el regalado.

El orador estuvo muy bien. No dijo nada y lo vivaron. Era perfecto. Nosotros, los que deberíamos decir algo, aquí estamos como ves hablándonos bajito por miedo a que nos muelan a palos. El orador encaja mucho mejor que nosotros.

We cannot ask ourselves whether 'woman' is superior or inferior to 'man' any more than we can ask ourselves whether water is superior or inferior to fire. There can be no doubt that a woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

One does not judge one's state of health by comparing it to that of a sick person

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

After looking at myself in the mirror, I looked at Satsuko. I could not believe that we were creatures of the same species. The uglier the face in the mirror, the more extraordinarily beautiful Satsuko seemed. If that ugly face were only uglier, I thought regretfully, Satsuko would look even more beautiful.

A month later the law student leaves you for one of her classmates, tells you that it was great but she has to start being realistic. . . . .Later you see her with said classmate on the Yard. He's even lighter than you but he still looks unquestionably black. He's also like nine feet tall and put together like an anatomy primer. They are walking hand in hand and she looks so very happy that you try to find the space in your heart not to begrudge her.

The next day at breakfast he asked his mother: Am I ugly? She sighed. Well, hijo, you certainly don't take after me. Dominican

He said books were more interesting than people.

Said books were more interesting than people.

Which one looked more real? Which side more beautiful?

Leilani smiles. I'm surprised she knows how. For a second i'm certain she's isn't like Rosa

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

A great deal of the friction between Christians and Pharisees was due to the similarity of their views, rather than to their difference.

Put Hannibal in the scales.

Así es como en nuestro pobre país se miden el talento y la fama, de manera directamente proporcional a la envidia.

The best I can say was that it was a very horsely horse. It was, indeed, the horseliest of all horses

I recognise your body in liana; your expression in the eyes of a frightened gazelle; the beauty of your face in that of the moon, your tresses in the plumage of peacocks... alas! Timid friend- no one object compares to you.

He was frustrated essentially because he wanted to be Niels Bohr or Albert Einstein, and he knew he wasn't." Weil

It's greener on the other side, but it's rainbows and gold on mine. - Kailin Gow