Quotes About Comparison

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on the JUDGE's bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he looks from one volume to the other, balancing them thoughtfully, as if his hands were scales. He half-smiles, half-shrugs. Then DRUMMOND slaps the two books together and jams them in his brief case, side by side. Slowly, he climbs to the street level and crosses the empty square.

Contentment with what we have — whether it is possessions, or station in life, or mental or physical abilities — is worth far, far more than all the things we don't have.

His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.

We tend to think of God as being like us.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

The TV birth of Little Ricky was watched by an incredible 44 million viewers—15 million more than would tune in President Eisenhower's inauguration the next day on all three networks.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

She explained crying to him. He said that it felt very good. In his opinion, it was almost the same as laughing. She said that many people believe it is the same.

if you are successful, most people are envious and they covet your success

She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard's elbow. She was as tall as Poppy, with shining dark-brown hair and blue eyes. An utterly lovely girl, as all the princesses were, yet Oliver thought Petunia was far more beautiful.

It never occurred to me to be happy with my lot.

I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.

Thinks that twitter is like facebook's slutty cousin. It does everything dumb and whore-ish you're too responsible to do

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Tas, ko nevar dab?t, cilv?kam vienm?r liekas lab?ks par to, kas vi?am ir. Te past?v cilv?ka dz?ves romantika un idiotisms.

?tii ceva, Fritz, femeile sunt, totuÈ™i, mult mai bune decât noi. -Cum ai descoperit deodat? aÈ™a ceva? -Nu È™tiu nici eu.Cea mai bun? dovad? este iubirea.La b?rbat ea înseamn? mai mult dorin??, la femeie, mai degrab? sacrificiu.La b?rbat intr? în joc vanitatea, la femeie, nevoia de ocrotire.M? gândesc la femeia adev?rat?, nu la femeiuÈ™ti.

Elsewhere in the government, Dodd thought he detected a new and decidedly moderate bent, at least by comparison to Hitler, Göring, and Goebbels, whom he described as "adolescents in the great game of international leadership." It was in the next tier down, the ministries, that he found cause for hope.

Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.

antipodes in appearance

The fair alone consumed three times as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.