Quotes About Comparison

You think Tide is better, or All?' 'Which has a prettier box?' I ask. 'I don't want a pretty box. I want a dude box.' Uh-huh,' I deadpan. 'You want a dude box of laundry detergent.' 'Yes, I do.' 'Good luck with that.

It didn't matter that in her heart Frankie knew she was smart and charming. What mattered was that feeling of being expendable. That to Porter, she was a nobody that could easily be replaced by a better model - and the better model wasn't even so great. Which meant Frankie herself was nearly worthless.

It really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred.

Granddad is more like Mummy than like me. He's erased his old life by spending money on a replacement one.

History is movement; and movement implies comparison.

One of Russia's tsars, around 1580, was known as Ivan the Terrible, and rightly so. Beside him Nero was mild.

It is not their standard of craftmanship which is different from ours, but their ideas.

A white handkerchief in the shade may be objectively darker than a lump of coal in the sunshine. We rarely confuse the one with the other because the coal will on the whole be the blackest patch in our field of vision, the handkerchief the whitest, and it is relative brightness that matters and that we are aware of.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Everything must be like something, so what is this ike?

When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

Though most people reject that claim as extravagant, they are left with the impression that Mormonism is simply an extreme form of Christian fundamentalism. Nothing could be further from the truth. On the contrary, Mormonism is a modified 'form of paganism which is so carefully camouflaged with a facade of Christian terminology that it even deceives most Mormons.

Mormonism's uniqueness is in the fact that it was the first really successful attempt to pass paganism off as Christianity;

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

To show actual avoidance of dissonant information, it is necessary to make comparisons against a neutral baseline.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong...with a spoon in them.

Apples are like days not all taste the same.

Happiness is only having something better than others.

Is this Enya?" "Grimes," Sarah said. "Sounds like Enya." "Whatever, Nickelback.

Our apartment is similar to the one on Ganghoferstrasse, only much smaller.