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Quotes About Comparison

If I could compare cells from my left and right hands, they would not be genetically identical, but they would be vastly more similar to each other than to any cell from my brother, Ben.
~ Carl Zimmer
People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Las gentes con el alma pequeña siempre tratan de empequeñecer a los demás
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mi?o?? jest jak w?dlina: jest salami i jest mortadela.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval. Good sirloin steak – if you'll excuse the comparison – needs to be cooked until it's medium rare. Of course, if the opportunity arises, don't be prudish, and go for the kill
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Leute mit kleiner Seele versuchen immer, die anderen herabzusetzen.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Zavist je religija mediokriteta.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A inveja é um cego que quer arrancar os olhos do outro.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Envy is the religion of the mediocre.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A férfi olyan hamar felmelegszik, mint a villanykörte: egy pillanat alatt t?zbe jön, s ugyanilyen hamar ki is h?l. Ellenben a nÅ' - s ez tudományosan bizonyított tény - úgy melegszik fel, mint a vasaló. Lassan, fokozatosan forr fel, mint a jó húsleves. De ha egyszer átforrósodott, nincs, aki leh?tse.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Love is a lot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna. Each has its own place and function.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La envidia es la religión de los mediocres.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The trouble is that man, going back to Freud - and excuse the metaphor - heats up like a light bulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand - and this is pure science - heats up like an iron, slowly, over a low heat, like a tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her. Like the steel furnaces in Vizcaya! I weighed up Fermin's thermodynamic theories.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dunces and blockheads live in a state of perpetual envy.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
El cazurro y el zoquete viven en un estado de perenne envidia.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
solucionados el tema de la alimentación y la vivienda, la primera necesidad que se plantea el ser humano es la búsqueda de motivos y recursos con los que sentirse diferente y superior a sus semejantes
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
As I was saying. Love is a lot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna. Each has its own place and function.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Jaloezie is de religie van de middelmatigen. Het sterkt ze, het beantwoordt aan de onrust die vanbinnen aan ze knaagt en uiteindelijk verteert het hun ziel, terwijl het ze toestaat hun eigen kleinzieligheid en hebzucht te rechtvaardigen totdat ze denken dat het deugden zijn.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She was invisible, so I imagined her as perfect. Next to her I was unworthy, vulgar, all too real.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
bastan unos cuantos pasos para tropezarse con alguien o con algo que le recuerda que siempre hay quien ha recibido peores cartas que uno mismo en la partida de la vida.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Solucionados el tema e la alimentación y la vivienda, la primera necesidad que se plantea el ser humano es la búsqueda de motivos y recursos con los que sentirse diferente y superior a sus semejantes.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.
~ Carol Ann Duffy