Quotes About Comparison

That is more than 300 million times faster than the telegraph and 30 billion times faster than horseback.

All I'm saying is that Dove Chocolate taste way better than Dove soap. Don't ask me how I know!

The average person believes that they are better than the average person.

And a single ton of raw uranium provides the same electricity as twenty thousand tons of black coal.

On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.

English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.

We looked each other up and down, checking out how the other looked. She won that battle. Her tailored suit was well made, her dark silk stocking tops visible just beneath her too-short skirt. Her make-up was immaculate: bright red lips and highlighted eyes stood out against her smooth, almost imperceptible foundation. And there I stood in my frayed grey trousers, my leaking black brogues and my gaudy military jacket.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

It's just like I remember," she said, smiling. "Only crappier," said Mallory.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.

I know now that my avatar all along has been closer to Lisa Simpson than anyone else.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said, condescendingly. "Hullo. Nice to see you.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody else too much, I know.

My head was awhirl with thoughts I really had no need of, and for the first time I found no pleasure at all in thinking about myself. I had sunk into a state of deep gloom, which has also come over me at times later in my life when other people are achieving more than I myself.

For example, all human beings grow up believing that life should turn out one way or another. This drives you, as an individual, to constantly compare your current reality with the ideal in your mind of how life "should" turn out—which in turn affects a startling amount of what you do.

There is a way that things should be. And when they are that way, things are right. When they're not that way, something is wrong with you, them, or it.

MATTIE FAE: I'm still very sexy, thank you very much. VIOLET: You're about as sexy as a wet cardboard box, Mattie Fae, you and me both. Don't kid yourself.

I think my parents did a better job of raising me than I did of raising my own kids.

Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

There are more men lurking in sheds in my garden than in any D.H. Lawrence novel.