Quotes About Comparison

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.

Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.

Overall, then, Aristotle just isn't as "sexy" as Plato. His only advantage is being right.

A lot of people said Star Trek II was such a terrific movie and had a lot of unkind things to say about Star Trek I, but I don't think they realize that Star Trek II wouldn't have been so good if someone hadn't gone boldly where no one had gone before and showed us, in effect, what not to do when it was really important.

Riding sidesaddle with envy is a dangerous practice: I would be happy if I had what he or she possesses. By contrast, giving thanks constantly and in all circumstances liberates us from envy.

Every poem is shadowed by desire, but it is also shadowed by the problem of rendering desire in language. There is a place where similitude seems to break down because experience itself seems beyond compare.

Last year, it cost the British taxpayers $57.8 million to maintain its royal family," wrote Robert Keith Gray in Presidential Perks Gone Royal. "During that same year, it cost American taxpayers some $1.4 billion to house and serve the Obamas in the White House, along with their families, friends and visiting campaign contributors.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

And as to the wonders of modern technology, bear in mind that a sidewalk weed and a protozoan are each more complex than any device yet invented by humanity.

except for behaving like apes much of the time and suffering genetically limited life spans, we are godlike.

Small, noncomparative, highly labeled data sets usually belong in tables.

The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.

To envy a man is to misunderstand him or yourself (pp 111).

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.

It has come to me of late that comparing one man's work to another's, naming one greater or lesser, is a wrong approach. The important and only vital question is, how much greater, finer, am I than I was yesterday? Have I fulfilled my possibilities, made the most of my potentialities? What a marvellous world if all would, — could hold this attitude toward life.

MORAL: The grass is only greener when you're not caring for your own lawn.

an honest dictatorship is better as a comparison between a weak and corrupt democracy.

Compare with one else subject or figure doesn't mean degrading one and ennobling another; however, it shows only the accuracy between that as an opinion.

Each one of us breathes with the jealousy. However, it depends on that one prevents the jealousy or jealousy poisons one.

Jealousy is a deficiency, of your mind that damages only you, no one else.

Jealousy is such a penalty that one sprays upon itself.