Quotes About Comparison

Joan fascinated me. It was like observing a Martian, or a particularly warty toad. Her thoughts were not my thoughts, nor her feelings my feelings, but we were close enough so that her thoughts and feelings seemed a wry, black image of my own.

Then I knew what the trouble was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?

I gathered all my news of Joan into a little, bitter heap, though I received it with surface gladness. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me.

Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card?

Como é que eu poderia escrever sobre a vida se nunca tivera um caso amoroso ou um filho ou vira alguém morrer? Uma garota que eu conhecia havia acabado de ganhar um prêmio por um conto sobre suas aventuras entre os pigmeus na África. Como é que eu podia competir com esse tipo de coisa?

wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter – – – for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.… Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

When Ted and I begin living together we shall become a team better than Mr. and Mrs. Yeats

My apologies to past loves for treating the latest as the first.

Sabías que lo que ganan la mayoría de las personas no varía más allá de un 20% de la media de los ingresos de sus amigos más íntimos? Por eso sería mejor que vigilases con quién te relacionas y eligieses con cuidado con quién pasas tu tiempo.

Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody—about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American. And yet Japan spends about $3,400 per person on health care each year; we burn through $7,400 per person.

It [The Great Gatsby] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years....it seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.

We pour more money into national defense than anybody else; our defense budgets, in fact, are bigger than those in the next eleven countries combined

But out of twenty-three wealthy countries, the American health care system ranks dead last when it comes to keeping newborns alive.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

All cases are unique, and very similar to others.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.

It's always difficult when people compare me unfavorably with other contemporary writers. It's much easier when they use examples from earlier eras of fiction. Because then I can say, Well, I may not be talented, but at least I'm not DEAD.

Pero... ¿Habría amor en un mundo semejante, Simón? ¿Existirían la belleza y el encanto, sin nada feo con que compararlos? ¿Qué sería un mundo sin sorpresas?

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick. He

Homicide detectives were to medical examiners what four-year-old children were to overworked mothers.

And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau