Quotes About Comparison

Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy.

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

To compare the United States of America - the beacon of the free world - to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education you get at most European universities.

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

It is harder to get into Deloitte than into the University of Pennsylvania.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

Redheaded women buck like goats.

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.