Quotes About Comparison

So he had been sleeping! God, what a dream! And why wake up? why not wait one more moment: she surely would have appeared again! The unpleasant and wan light of vexatious day showed in his windows. Such gray, such dingy disorder in his room … Oh, how repulsive reality is! What is it compared with dreams?

Chi racchiude in sè del talento deve aver l'anima più pura di ogni altro. A un altro molto si perdona, ma a lui non si perdonerà. A chi è uscito di casa con un chiaro abito festivo basta una sola macchia di fango schizzata da una ruota perché tutta la gente lo circondi e lo segni a dito e parli della sua sporcizia, mentre la stessa gente non nota le molte macchie sui molti passanti vestiti di abiti quotidiani. Perché sugli abiti di tutti i giorni non si notano le macchie.

They say the most intelligent people pay more attention when buying their boots than when choosing a lifelong companion.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

Cigarettes are always costly than brick blocks..... Be wise.

The moment someone tells you you're not good enough, is the moment you know you're better than them.

Deep down, it seemed, many Americans were convinced that a gain for others was a loss for themselves.

Changing yourself is supposed to mean hope, at least according to the self-help books and magazine paradigms, but for me - and I suspect many others - it simply means finding new ways to feel inadequate.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.

Embora a auto-imagem de uma nação possa variar consideravelmente de geração para geração, e de estrato social para estrato social, mesmo se a compararmos com as imagens correspondentes de outras nações, pode-se reconhecer com muita clareza a continuidade e a diferenciação no desenvolvimento de cada uma delas.

will begin with the analogy of the rose. In the smell of the rose, there is hardly a fragrance that can compare with its beauty. But how would you describe this fragrance? The way we would describe it is that it is closer to the word and feeling of love than any other flower on the Earth

Kohei Goshi, the 81 year old founder of the Japan Productivity Center, our host in Japan, said, "Americans are very good at inventing, but we may be better at raising a baby.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end of this period did the Church comprise as many people as the far-flung Jewish community numbered (five million) in the Roman Empire. Christianity developed an intense rivalry with Judaism, and for many decades was compared to the Jews as a minority. This accounts for the intense anti-Semitism that became enshrined in Christianity by 200 A.D.

Do not compare" is the mantra of moral blackmailers.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

It is quite likely that a medieval European would decry our own culture in such terms for its failure to venerate the Blessed Virgin with sufficient fervor. Indeed, a wellbred Aztec would doubtless find us odd and emotionally stunted in our deplorable lack of enthusiasm for massive orgies of human sacrifice. We must therefore ask, in good cultural relativist fashion, whether Kellert is merely glorifying his own intense prejudices by describing them as human universals.

What's the difference between Chamberlain and Hitler? Chamberlain takes a weekend in the country, Hitler takes a country in a weekend.

A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

There is no religion that is not Christianity.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Sonunda insanlar? kar?ncalar gibi kalabal?k ve nereye ko???tu?unu bilmeden çarp???p duran önemsiz varl?klara benzetti.

Kitab-? Mukaddes'in Türkçesi çok kötü. ?ngilizcesi'nden kar??la?t?rarak okuyorum. Biri oturmu? çok kötü bir dille çevirmi?; bir kelimesi bile de?i?tirilemez ya: ondan sonra bir daha düzeltilmemi?. Çeviren, sanki ?sa'n?n Türkiye mümessili.

Gerçekte, büyük bir ya? fark?m?z yok; ben de okuyup yazm?? bir ki?i say?l?r?m. Ne var ki, insanlar aras?ndaki fark, böyle basit ölçülerle de?erlendirilemez. Bunu biliyorum.