Quotes About Comparison

Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen. But I know you wish it was me. You wish it was me don't you

I know he loved you. A long time ago. I ain't jealous of you, Just thought you should know. You were never good enough for him, Or anything like me. So you might as well sit back, cause I ain't trying to show maturity.

But the yardstick is not only contrived, it's too short: my consistently perfect scores don't tell them anything, because they have no basis for comparison this far out on the bell curve.

In fact, when compared against the timepieces normally employed for such calibration purposes, the turret clocks were all found to have resumed keeping perfect time.

But I guess he has a point about how good-looking people are in commercials versus in real life. It's not that they look better than people in real life, but they look good in a different way.

The difficulty of any trial was subjective, and there was no way to compare two individuals' experiences. And just as those whose suffering seemed greater than his should have compassion for him, so should he have compassion for those whose suffering seemed less.

It is a cold and harrowing morning in the life of a man the day he wakes up, looks at himself in the mirror, and finally realizes that he is not, never has been, nor will ever be George Clooney.

never paralyzed by the need to judge and to compare. They don't dwell on the fact that today's walk isn't as nice as yesterday's, or this forest isn't as interesting as the one they were in last week.

she didn't want to take care of a husband in his old age, and the new man was younger than I. Just as important, he played better for the folks back home.

the first two years of a dog's life equal twenty-four years in human years, and then each subsequent year of the dog's life equals four years for the human.

our hearing is superior to that of dogs in this regard. We have a spatial acuity of less than 1 degree, whereas dogs can localize sounds only in a 4- to 8-degree range.

the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.

The Premier League is different to Spain.

What's the problem that people have here in Spain with Maradona and Messi? They spend the whole day comparing them.

Sometimes you have an exceptional international team, such as Spain in 2010, but club football is better.

People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did.

For me, the Bundesliga is a stronger competition than the English and Spanish leagues.

If you analyze the German league, the Spanish league, the Italian league, there are two or three teams that stand out above the rest, and the other teams have a regular level.

Italian football's different to Spanish and German, but it's only different and not inferior.

I mean no offence, but we know that the French league is not the same as the Spanish or English league, where there's more difficulty.

English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.

I like watching Spanish and Italian games and looking at how they play compared to us.