Quotes About Comparison

No era Calleja, como lo creía él mismo, un gran militar […] su energía era menor que su crueldad feroz; su constancia igualaba a su lentitud […] es frente a Morelos en el arte de la guerra lo que un artesano lento y tosco frente al artista de concepciones rápidas».

He was everything I wasn't. He was a lot of what I wanted to be.

Toddlers, according to one research study, laugh 400 times a day. Adults laugh an average of four times. What happened?

I am walking down the street in Manhattan, Fifth Avenue in the lower sixties, women with shopping bags on all sides. I realize with some horror that for the last fifteen blocks I have been counting how many women have better and how many women have worse figures than I do. Did I say fifteen blocks? I meant fifteen years.

Not all Americans talk like me. The states in America are kind of like your countries over here,

Who'll be Prince Charming?" Maddy wanted to know. "Nigel or Jeremy? I must say neither of them is a very good example of that title!

How do you like that, Corbray? You're upstaging yourself.

I'm not like him, Kara. Whoever he is, I'm not like him." She ran a hand over his chest, with its mat of golden curls and teased one flat brown nipple, desire already running hot in her veins. "No. No you're not.

In the U.S. sometimes I have the feeling that if it's not difficult for you, you have to feel bad about that," he says.

I might as well have declared my devotion to processed cheese.

You know when you're in yoga and you're looking around, thinking, Wow, I wish I were that flexible, or How come she can hold that pose? Well, my friend has a saying: "Stay on your own mat." Not physically, but mentally. In life, we're all made differently: our families, our frames, our personalities and talents. Appreciate how you were made, and stay on your mat. That's where happiness lies.

Boobs are like boyfriends. You go around wishing for them and trying to figure out what you have to do to get them, and worrying about all the things you're probably doing wrong, and then one day, who knows why, you wake up and find you've got more than you wanted.

La competizione non è per tutti e soprattutto non seleziona i migliori, solo i meno sensibili.

anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.

We are first among the nations in per capita giving: it would take three Frenchmen, seven Germans, or fourteen Italians to equal the charitable donations of one American.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a FISH by its ability to CLIMB a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it IS stupid

Some people's happiness is always other people's kitsch.

nada do que é manufacturado me agradada por comparação com as bruscas paisagens de Deus. (…) À Casa de Ouro ou ao tesouro do imperador Alexandre, prefiro o oceano Atlântico. O Coliseu aos pés do monte Oppio é menos belo que uma trovoada.

Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more.

The difference between Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and Enron's Kenneth Lay is far easier to recognize with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.

The man was very like his brother, a gangling creature with large hands and feet and a narrow face, though his normal expression was as sour as week-old milk.

As a matter of fact, the universal tendency of adult domestic dogs to bark is one of the many behavioral markers that suggests that adult dogs are actually a juvenilized version of adult wolves.