Quotes About Comparison

His accidental fortune was beyond calculation, to have been born in 1948 in placid Hampshire, not Ukraine or Poland in 1928, not to have been dragged from the synagogue steps in 1941 and brought here. His white-tiled cell – a piano lesson, a premature love affair, a missed education, a missing wife – was by comparison a luxury suite. If his life so far was a failure, as he often thought, it was in the face of history's largesse.

Her forehead, so high and oval, reminded him of how Shakespeare was supposed to look. He was not certain how to put this to her.

Ci si misura rapportandosi agli altri, non esiste alternativa. Di quando in quando, in modo assolutamente involontario, arriva qualcuno e ti insegna qualcosa sul tuo conto.

She was one of those people who could not say if one note was lower or higher than another. This was no less a disability and misfortune than a clubfoot or a harelip...

And these are only the ones I happen to know about. As soon as you discover you're not the best, you throw it in and hate yourself. Same with relationships. You want too much and move on.

War Plan Orange seemed to recap the dismal career of the Russian fleet under Admiral Rozhestvensky in 1905, and who could say with confidence that the result would not be the same?

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?" "I'm not implying. I'm saying it.

On your best day, you're only as good as I am on my worst with one arm tied behind my back.

You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.

Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.

If he ever frosted his hair blue, he'd look like a gas burner.

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.

I wanted to be a professional athlete. Young men and women from Montana don't make it to the professional level that often. And I always believed that because I was a great football player that made me better than you. And that's not the case at all.

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

My weight was a huge issue as a young person. For my mother, for my father, and for my siblings... nobody in my family is overweight. And here I come.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

I have gone out with younger men, and they're great fun; they've got enthusiasm. Stamina! But I think older men are much better lovers.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.

I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time.

Sandy Meisner would say it takes 20 years to make an actor. Some people it takes five, some people 30. And you have to have patience and forgiveness for yourself. It's hard when you see people at your age or younger becoming successful.

Younger guys are just too jealous.