Quotes About Comparison

Japan is the one with the most equal division of wealth, and the one with proportionately the fewest billionaires in its population; the U.S. lies far at the opposite extreme in both respects.

In 1948, a married couple with the median income and two children paid only 2 percent of its income in state, federal, and social security taxes. In 1991 they paid 30 percent.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

The most favorite boy's name is James; the least favorite is Gzxkls.

I took a sip of my drink. It tasted like old horse blankets soaked in urine.

it was as hot as Alaska in February.

Al Mahara is to good taste what Adolf Hitler was to world peace.

Look at the positive side. To a man who is going to spend his wedding night alone, I would think that a live actress running around in the buff on stage would be a lot more interesting than an inflatable, anatomically correct doll." Stark gave her a thoughtful look. "Point taken.

When we were growing up, Cooper Island was our whole world." "And then we went out into a much bigger world, so the island and everything on it now seem smaller in comparison.

W]e have a tendency to judge others according to ourselves.

Opium resembles religion insofar as a magician resembles Jesus.

I francesi sono degli italiani di cattivo umore.

Es muss so etwas wie Glück geben. Wie sonst würden wir uns den Erfolg derjenigen erklären, die wir nicht mögen?

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

But you don't know the world,' I teased her. 'No, only here, and Jamaica of course, Coulibri, Spanish Town. I don't know the other islands at all. Is the world more beautiful, then?' And how to answer that? 'It's different,' I said.

Because he has money he's a kind of god. Because I have none I'm a kind of worm. A worm because I've failed and I have no money. A worm because I'm not even sure if I hate you.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

In what way am I any better? She is smug. I am cynical. She is puffed-up. I am punctured. I watch her gamely finding the energy to thrash about on life's greasy surface, while I lie paralysed, croaking about another life I think I can see.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That's not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away.

Les paysannes mangent moins de viande et plus de légumes que les femmes de la ville ; et ce régime végétal paraît plus favorable que contraire à elles et à leurs enfants.

Dès lors qu'elle dépend à la fois de sa propre conscience et des opinions des autres, il faut qu'elle apprenne à comparer ces deux règles, à les concilier, et à ne préférer la première que quand elles sont en opposition. [...] Rien de tout cela ne peut bien se faire sans cultiver son esprit ou sa raison.