Quotes About Comparison

Pryce's chicken is an unhealthy-looking grey, the way my sister looked when she had glandular fever. He examines it gloomily. 'We'll get

If you want to win her hand, Let the maiden understand That she's not the only pebble on the beach.

In dat gedicht wilde ik de liefde vergelijken met het soort licht dat je vlak na zonsondergang soms tegen de bomen ziet hangen: van dat toverachtige licht. Dat is het licht, dat in iemand zit die van iemand anders houdt.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

The difference between bad and worse is a lot bigger than the difference between good and better.

COMPARISON OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Luther, again, always compared the sexual to the excretory impulse, and said that marriage was just as necessary as the emission of urine.

all things that seem good and evil are the opposite ends of one line, and it is difficult to say where evil ends and good begins, for these are comparative terms. A lesser good would seem evil when compared with a greater good, and the lesser evil in comparison with the greater evil would appear good. If there were no evil, good would not have been valued. Without injustice, justice would not have been appreciated. Therefore the whole of life's joy is expressed in duality.

Language is made up of names of comparable objects, and that which cannot be compared has no name.

I warned you before not to marry him if he couldn't kiss you as I did. Now I can warn you that you'll never have anything like you had tonight with him. Not in a thousand years, Kiernan.

Many of us learn to construct a clear and precise vision of what we want, but we're never taught how to enjoy what we actually have. There will always be more victories to strive for, more strangers to charm, more images to collect and pin to our vision boards. It's hard to want what we have; it's far easier to want everything in the world.

I used to be more like that woman, having fun with whatever task was in front of me instead of freaking out about how I looked to other people. I need to figure out how to get back there. My life has turned out great. Sow why am I comparing myself to perfectly styled, enviable, energetic professional in my head?...I keep saying to myself: "This is all wrong You are all wrong."..."You should be a shiny, infallible adult by now. Why are you still such a mess?

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. —Margaret Atwood

He that is jealous is not in love. —St. Augustine

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.

Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes--well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.

Will asked Miss Beasley what kind of man Glendon Dinsmore had been and she answered, as different from you as air is from earth. He asked which he was, air or earth? She laughed and said, "That's what I like about you—you really don't know.

Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

En cualquier caso, Kuhn insistió en que «la decisión de rechazar un paradigma es siempre simultánea a la decisión de aceptar otro, y el pensamiento o juicio que conduce a esa decisión implica la comparación de ambos paradigmas con el mundo circundante y entre ellos».

Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.