Quotes About Comparison

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

All creations are one with the universe. Look at the world around you. Can you effectively separate yourself from everything else? After seriously pondering this, most of us rapidly conclude that we cannot. To even make the statement that I exist as a unique entity requires comparison with something else. (If you exist as a distinct being, your distinctiveness is in comparison to other creations. No other creations, no individual you.)

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

De Quincey compared the two arts of rhetoric, logos and pathos, to rudder and sail. The first guides discourse and the second powers it (Thonssen and Baird, 1948, p. 358). Even

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would. I

Fair queen, at home there is none like thee, But over the mountains is Snow-white free, With seven little dwarfs, who are strange to see; A thousand times fairer than thou is she. Queen, thou art not the fairest now; Snow-white over the mountain's brow A thousand times fairer is than thou. Queen, thou art the fairest here, But not when Snow-white is near; Over the mountains still is she, Fairer a thousand times than thee.

All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used." So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Look around the stadium. There's not one memento of what I did. There's nothing about what I did in this stadium, but they've got a statue of Ty Cobb sliding into a base.

The Dead Sea Scrolls predated the earliest extant text—Masoretic—by more than a millennium.3 Yet when compared to one another, differences in style and spelling were noted but no significant difference in substance.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

La Rochefoucauld'un dedi?i gibi: "Si on juge l'amour par la plupart de ses effets, il ressemble plus a la haine qu'a l'amitié" "A?k? yapt??? etkilerin ço?una göre de?erlendirirsek, bize arkada?l?ktan çok nefret gibi görünecektir.

if i had to describe myself i would say that i was am a cross between Jack Parr aNd MicheaL J. fox.

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have wounds and scars of their own. They may even be envying us.

Earle was the single exception to this rule, the only other adult she seemed fully at ease with. Of course, having just turned twenty-two, he was a child by comparison to the aged Mary.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

One might debate whether it is preferable to be a cat or a person, but why get into it? If you are reading this now, you are not a cat and never will be. So along with the good days, you're going to experience the entire range of painful emotions that make us human.

How does anyone think that 'attempted murder' counts the same as actual murder? They shouldn't even call it 'attempted': that's just a way to flatter failure.