Quotes About Comparison

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

My own experience is that night and day are more alike than different -- in which case they couldn't possibly be opposite.

In discussing the so-called biological origins of male dominance, the boys can afford to compare themselves to baboons and insects: they are writing books or teaching in universities when they do it. A Harvard professor does not refuse tenure because a baboon has never been granted it.

You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to something, and declare that I see a difference.

Research knowledge of a complex phenomenon advances by comparing the relative contributions of different models.

How much a fool that's sent to roam Excels a fool that stays at home.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Stand by; for I am holier than you! What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much of holiness as we have of God.

He is not the best. But he is the best I ever had.

HE WAS NOT THE BEST BUT HE WAS THE BEST I EVER HAD

Why this endless need for a man as a mirror? To see the Arthur Less reflected there?

Why did he always assume Mexico City would be like Phoenix on a smoggy day? Why did no one tell him it would be Madrid

Sean's (Penn) is going to be the new Dustin Hoffman. He'll be around a long time.

Grief can have its own weightage. What is worse? The loss of a parent or one's own child?

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

Maybe we tried so hard to be like the Sisterhood because it was easy for them and we wanted it to be easy for us. Because they were lucky and we wanted to be lucky too. They had wonder, and we didn't have any. We looked for the magic, but we didn't fine it. We waited for the magic, but it didn't find us.

A pigeon is the same thing as a dove, did you know that? Bridget

And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

That seemed a sad thing about human nature - how much more time we spend thinking about what we don' have, or have lost, than about what we have.

Vera had a stab of recognition which made her stop in her tracks. For a moment, the woman, overweight, aggressive, seen reflected in the shop window, looked very much like her.

Uncle Joe says they're running around like thirty-year-olds." Claudia looked confused. "Is that supposed to be young?" "To him," I replied.

People kept looking at Janine and then looking at me. I could just tell they were all thinking, I can't believe you're sisters. Then they would ignore me and congratulate Janine.

Mimi … Oh, you just take Janine's side because she's smarter than I am. Mom and Dad love her more because she's smarter, and I bet you do, too!

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