Quotes About Comparison

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.

All I think about is playing at the highest level and in the top competitions so I can measure myself against the best in the world.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.

When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes.

My friends actually used to call me the 'Female Conor Oberst.' I got to open up with him once, and I told him about that, and he thought it was hilarious.

My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.

I think people really liked Bill Clinton. They'd like to see him get elected, but Hillary's just a different animal.

For France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton.

I did not have a car in high school and neither did Angelina. Try to imagine. You go to Beverly Hills High, one of the wealthiest high schools in the nation. Even the cheapest car that anyone has is brand new. All my friends are well off. I have a movie-star father and no car. It was debilitating.

I used to like Mukeshji very much because his Hindi was excellent. It was very clear, and his pronunciation was excellent. No one could match that.

Hindi is far easier a language to pick up than Tamil.

Luke Skywalker was twice the age of the ten-year-old vaporator, but much less secure.

We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor's footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master's, although it is but his own.

I looked, and saw: before her, cast from an unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent beauty. She trembled, and sank again on the floor helpless. She knew the one that God had intended her to be, the other that she had made herself.

We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments, instead of up at the snows of purity, whither the soul of Christ clomb. Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbour's footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master's, although it is but his own.

Oh, the holy satisfaction of the godly—when it comes to delight in cruelty I'm just a child compared to them

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.