Comparative Analysis Quotes

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.

I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

This is the question I'm asking: Do Americans live twice as long because they consume twice as much energy as Europeans? Are you people twice as smart as the average Frenchman? Do you enjoy life twice as much as the average Danish guy? What have we gotten for consuming twice as much energy as Europe? What have we gotten in return?

It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.

Obama's starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh's starting point, and Obama's rise was not as sharp.

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times.

We are not, as a race, so much disposed to fight and kill one another as our red brethren.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

I recognized that … there was a science of society as well as botany.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.

What's the problem that people have here in Spain with Maradona and Messi? They spend the whole day comparing them.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

I think it's possible to a certain extent to make those comparisons. The problem is the detail with which the comparison can be made. Of course, the first place to make such a comparison would be to ask for a testimony from different people and have people report on what they experience.

You can't really compare teams just because of two or three players.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.