Quotes About Comparison

Thus our arrogance grows as we seek to exalt ourselves above others, as if we were different from them. Truly, there's no one who does not flippantly and boldly disregard and despise others as inferiors. Yes

We are all so blinded and upset by self-love that everyone imagines he has a just right to exalt himself and to undervalue all others in comparison to self.

The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world. It

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

Happy Birthday, Thomas Hayward. Unfortunately he's dead, he would have been 177 today. Only a year younger than me.

I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.

Most writers tend to create characters who are like them – only slightly better looking, taller, younger and more witty

To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

For many years it had been claimed that the average achievement by pupils in some South-East Asian countries was significantly higher than in the United Kingdom. Then it came to light that the weakest pupils in that country were removed from the total who were evaluated at an earlier stage in the educational process. Clearly, the effect of their removal is to skew the average attainments to be higher than they would otherwise be.

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.

As soon as there was two there was pride

Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.

Thou, sun, art half as happy as we.

MARK but this flea

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

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

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.