Quotes About Comparison

La comparación es el ladrón de la felicidad» —contestó el millonario—. Siempre hay alguien que tiene más fortuna, más fama o más cosas que tú.

Everyone is different. One of the fundamental principles that Yogi Raman taught me was that truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself," Julian replied.

They were our friends because we hated them; it was good to have them around. I was cleaner than them, brainier than them. I was better than them.

You can't hate a proov when you're near one, because you want to be like them, you ache to be like them. You want to be perfect, too, and you know if you were improved you'd act just like they do, and feel what they feel, and glide through the world with sky-colored eyes and hair like sunlight, and nothing dirty or broken could ever touch you.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

By the seventh century, Christianity probably was far stronger and more sophisticated in North Africa and Asia than in Europe.

Gene Siskel used to describe old-age makeup as making young actors look like turtles.

Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare. Sparks also said his novels are like Greek Tragedies. This may actually be true. I can't check it out because, tragically, no really bad Greek tragedies have survived.

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

The other Bonds were not wrong in the role (even Lazenby has his defenders), but they were not Connery, and that was their cross to bear.

Siskel's classic question, "Is this movie better than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

The only way to measure our progress is to read about what this country used to be.

Moreover, since it is in the nature of tastes to differ, how can a standard erected by one person's taste be used to cast judgement on another's? How, for example, can we pretend that one type of music is superior or inferior to another when comparative judgements merely reflect the taste of the one who makes them?

While exorting us to judge other cultures in their own terms, he [Said] asks us to judge Western culture from a point of view outside---to set it against alternatives, and to judge it adversely, as ethnocentric and even racist.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide everything into two groups, and those who don't.

Life is a thing--if you'll excuse a quick dab of philosophy before you know what kind of picture I'm painting--that reminds me quite a bit of the beaches around Tokyo Bay

We were enough like Brand that I knew a particular species of fear nothing else could provoke.

We were more alike than we were different, he and I.

Washington has suffered from comparisons with other founders, several of whom were renowned autodidacts, but by any ordinary standard, he was an exceedingly smart man with a quick ability to grasp

Like most people, Hamilton and Adams were preternaturally sensitive to flaws in the other that they themselves possessed.

Harriman was a very different type from Pierpont.

Rockefeller now left Andrew Carnegie far behind and probably had at least twice as much money as Carnegie did.

Recoiling at what he saw as the Clark brothers' pomposity, he eventually grew as censorious of them as he had been of George Gardner.

61 Pierpont's fortune didn't approach those of the great industrialists—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, or Harriman—and he didn't quite edge out Jay Gould.