Quotes About Comparison

He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.

Me?' He smiled faintly. 'Listen, I could study forever and I'd never break a C. But it's different for you, you're good. You really are. If I had a brain like that, I'd-I'd have my head cut open so people could look at it'. 'Now wait a second. . .

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

More popular than Jesus More popular than Jesus is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music. Wikipedia

Precisely because [historians'] detachment from and elevation above the landscape of the past, historians are able to manipulate time and space in ways they never could manage as normal people. They can compress these dimensions, expand them, compare them, measure them, and even transcend them, almost as poets, playwrights, novelists, and film-makers do. Historians have always been, in this sense, abstractionists: the literal representation of reality is not their task.

So Kennan came back to America "glowing inwardly at everything which . . . is sound and right and refreshing, and wincing at everything which offends a taste rendered more discriminate than the average by its ability to draw comparisons." His sensitivity was that of a musical instrument, vibrating to the "most minute phenomena

abrirnos a la posibilidad de que, al menos en algunos aspectos, fueron más sabios que nosotros».[55]

Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen: the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin.

Britons are 16 times more likely to understand the rules of Quidditch than the rules of croquet.

Camel urine is as thick as syrup.

The largest egg in comparison with the size of the bird is that of the little spotted kiwi. Its egg accounts for 26 percent of its own weight: the equivalent of a woman giving birth to a six-year-old child.

Today's world population is 6.3 billion. To give a sense of the impact in today's world of the 1918 pandemic, one has to adjust for population. If one uses the lowest estimate of deaths—the 21 million figure—that means a comparable figure today would be 73 million dead. The higher estimates translate into between 175 and 350 million dead.

He flings pros into the air like skeet, and one by one he shatters them with cons.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.

Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.