Quotes About Comparison

Perspective is a funny thing. You think your back is to the wall, then something worse corners you, and the first threat looks puny in comparison.

We look at each other commiserating, because grown-ups are so fecked up and we're never going to turn out like them.

I despise that he knows it and I don't. Makes him the better man for her in this situation. I want to be the better man for her in every situation.

People were not supposed to be getting married when she couldn't and people were not supposed to be hooking up when she wasn't.

Does Chloe remind you of anyone?" One corner of his mouth lifted. "Linda Blair in The Exorcist?" Seth!" He laughed. "All right, then, maybe a little bit of a stretch. Who did you have in mind?" Me." His eyes widened. "Good God, I'd almost have Linda Blair.

cats had more emotional intelligence than many humans.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

In general, the specific words in metaphoric language are less important than the concepts that the metaphors are comparing. Critics often pay attention to metaphoric words instead of concepts, simply because words are easier to identify. It's straightforward to decide that a metaphor includes the word like and therefore is a simile. It's harder to pinpoint what's wrong with lightning that pirouettes or what's interesting about a window that resembles an eye.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE many who are richer or more distinguished than I am, so if my purpose in working is to attain these extrinsic rewards, I will be disappointed, for I will always compare myself to those whose attainments are greater. But if I work principally for the pleasure or the fulfillment it gives me, my success is assured. There are few blessings greater than finding such work and keeping it.

what characterizes the empirical method is its manner of exposing to falsification, in every conceivable way, the system to be tested. Its aim is not to save the lives of untenable systems but, on the contrary, to select the one which is by comparison the fittest, by exposing them all to the fiercest struggle for survival.

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

Es ist interessanter, einen Apfel auf dem Mond zu finden als einen Mondstein.

If this is earth,' said the producer from Washington, D.C., 'I'm not interested in what heaven has to offer.

Derek," I said after a moment, "have you ever noticed that women can be really stupid?" He put his arm around my shoulders. "And yet, they're generally smarter than men." "That's a sad, sad statement.

Rather than seeing a contest between druid and Christian, I see a kinship between stone chapel and stone circle.

Where Evangeline came to below his shoulder, Gail was a head taller. An easier distance from which to spit in his eye, he thought spitefully.

You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.

She'd pulled the very top part of her long strawberry blond hair into a tiny ponytail, making her look like a Yorky.