Quotes About Comparison

Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.

The vision men call Lilith is formed primarily by their anxiety at what they perceive to be the beauty of a woman's body, a beauty they believe to be at once, far greater and far less than their own.

People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.

The cold water embraced hime like no woman ever could

the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.

He so nearly understood. I'll marry you, Hank, if you bring me to live here at the Landing. I'll swap New York for this place but not for Maycomb.

he couldn't see why on earth people lived in that place when they could have a house and a yard for far less down here.

He declared Egyptians walked that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done, but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured, Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.

You folks might be better than the Cunninghams, but it doesn't count for nothing the way you're disgracing them.

Tribunalul reprezinta tinutul... in aceeasi masura ca si ceaiurile misionarilor.

He and Aunty looked alike, but Uncle Jack made better use of his face

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Your name's longer'n you are.

Our society doesn't promote self-acceptance and it never will. First of all, self-acceptance doesn't sell products. Capitalism would fall if we liked ourselves the way we are now. Also, people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on. I'm sure you've noticed that many individuals and groups try to enhance their self-esteem by diminishing others.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin...

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Compared to the complexity of the universe, this world of ours is like the brain of a worm.