Quotes About Comparison

When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.

I hoped for love When I look at you face to face not even Hermioni seems to be your equal. I compare you to blond Helen among mortal women. Know that you can free me from every care, and stay awake all night long on dewy riverbanks

Now she stands out among Lydian women as after sunset the rose-fingered moon exceeds all stars.

We weren't monogamous out of obligation. We were monogamous because we wanted each other more than anyone else. We were monogamous because no one else could compare.

If you hate yourself enough, you'll start to hate anyone who reminds you of you. And if you stick with it, you'll come to hate anyone who doesn't see how just awful you are.

I'd developed a kind of resentment of people who were attractive and looked like they had sex and maybe even enjoyed life.

One doesn't compare [The Lakes] with Paris, it is the difference I find stimulating.

You? You're no more a detective than I am a ballet dancer," he exclaimed. "I'd like to see you in tights and a tutu.

Alas, this isn't Utopia or even Minneapolis.

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

Iadul sunt ceilalti.

There are all these perfect people here. And it's like if you're not one of them, then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just messed up as we are.

Emma sounds like an old maid. Sutton's way better." - Nisha Emma pursed her lips, but I couldn't help it. I burst out laughing.

That other girl who was going to play Kate? God rest her soul, but she was god-awful.

Like he was trying to make it the Four Seasons of kidnapping situations.

Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.

Less than the cloud to the wind, Less than the foam to the sea, Less than the rose to the storm Am I to thee. More than the star to the night, More than the rain to the tree, More than heaven to earth Art thou to me.

Christians swim in metaphor like fish in the sea. Spiritual formation requires some measure of analogical or imaginative ability, since we are, after all, dealing with an invisible God who can't be humanly grasped except in comparison to things that are, well, humanly grasped.

the instant she made a point of telling me I was just as good as them, I saw that the whole question was open to debate and she was cheering me on because I was on the losing team

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.