Quotes About Comparison

the minarets now seemed to me as profuse in Istanbul as smokestacks in Pittsburgh.

I haven't turned into Richard Harding Davis.

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

Another difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time the legislature meets.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.

He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.

We think we're better than average at not being biased in thinking that we're better than average.

Darwin, on grounds such as this, believed that the human species is a moral one—that, in fact, we are the only moral animal. "A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them," he wrote. "We have no reason to suppose that any of the lower animals have this capacity.

Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Is it just me, or is that guy the coolest boyfriend ever invented?" "It's not just you." And there was that same dull pain-the one I get sometimes when I see the two of them together and realize I'll never have that. I gave Amanda a smile. "He's great. I'm really happy for you." And that was a hundred percent true. But it didn't make it hurt any less.

Is Ronchamp reminiscent of the Ark left stranded on Ararat, or like 'bits of broken china thrown on top of the hill'? Is the roof like a bird's wing, or does the whole edifice look like a decoy? Is it an alighting dove or a sitting duck? Good taste bids us to suppress the latter in favour of the former, although the latter is as easy to see.

much discomfort was based on human expectations. As a man, I expected to be warm and dry when I chose to be. Animals did not harbor any such beliefs. So it was raining. That part of me that was wolf could accept that. Rain meant being cold and wet. Once I acknowledged that and stopped comparing it to what I wished it to be, the conditions were far more tolerable.

Vultures and peacocks might both have feathers and beaks, but one did not confuse the two creatures.

have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

Vim a saber mais tarde que muitos homens vêem sempre a boa fortuna dos outros como uma desfeita contra si próprios.

I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. We should be grateful for that.

If this is 'good' coffee, I dread what bad coffee might be," I told her. I did as I'd seen Alise do, dumping my unwanted cupful back into the big black pot on the stove. I waited for the tea to brew.

If I had met you for the first time tonight, I would have despised you. You put me in mind of Regal." "Did I? Well, perhaps that reflect my belief that there is something to be learned from everyone that we meet.

It's a hard way to learn, but I think that's how most of us learn about jealousy. It seems like a stupid way for anyone to feel, until someone makes you feel it.