Quotes About Comparison

If heat rises, heaven must be hotter than hell.

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.

They don't make it as well as they did in the past!0

If Finnigin was to be Casmeer's peaks, then Ays would be his hollows, and for all Ays' distance, it was easier to be with him than with the flickering presence of the terranaut.

It was no longer light versus the dark, but one spectrum of light against another.

I like you, Lahash. I find you attractive. Yet I looked at you beside him, and you are like a pinprick of light to his sun. That is the legacy of having loved him.

How could the same nose, mouth and eyes appear handsome in one man, merely plain in another?

This man looked like Khaster yet in many ways he was entirely dissimilar. If any thing, this was what Khaster should always have been: tougher, more humorous.

To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!

Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,

Disappointment for Slavs is always more poetic and profound, as well as more frequent, than it is for Americans.

As long as you can say I'm better than they are, then there's somebody below you can kick. But once you get over that, you see that you're not any better off than they are. In fact, you're worse off 'cause you're believin' a lie.

Y nosotros aquí, en nuestro mundo, aburridísimo en comparación, pensando que lo sabemos y que lo vemos todo." Robert Crawford

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Well, to be honest Dad, I think he's a little bit like you. Sort of useless, and amusing." (Jess regarding Fred)

To me then, at the age of eleven, Santa Clause was a bit like God, all-seeing, all-knowing, but without the lousy things that God allows to happen: earthquakes, famines, motorway crashes.

When the governor ordered him to travel around the district courts to administer justice and he arrived at Gades, he noticed the statue of Alexander the Great at the temple of Hercules and groaned as though disgusted with his own idleness—he had done nothing worth remembering at an age when Alexander had already conquered the world. He

They were always comparing themselves to the outside world, which none of them had ever seen, declaring themselves the best. This insistence on "best" seemed strangely childlike, and the words best and greatest were used so frequently that they gradually lost their meaning.

Sight is about contrast. You cannot see an object if there is nothing to contrast it against.

Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.

Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do—these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane.

Neither can drive.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.