Quotes About Comparison

whoever decided that competition is always and without exception a healthy attribute?

He let out a slow breath, only now realizing he was lying on an ants' nest and its inhabitants were telling him to leave in no uncertain terms. I lie with the weight of a god on their world, and these ants don't like it. We're so much more alike than most would think.

I hate myself, but he hates everyone else. Which of us has lost the most?

Soviet woman of child-bearing age had six to eight abortions. This translated into 10 million to 16 million abortions per year. (The comparable figures for the United States were 0.5 abortions per woman and roughly 1.5 million abortions per year.)

Maybe we're luckier than ninety percent of the people on the planet, but no matter how expensive the shoe, it still pinches when it doesn't fit.

That was you?" "Well, it wasn't Sailor Moon.

Misery isn't a bloody competition. Joe

I want to stress that—only sixty digits. That's the most we would ever need to express one distance in terms of another.

To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929) the 'honesty' of documentary as compared with fiction film, the 'perfection' of the cinematic eye compared with human eye.

She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last spring. Now they would look at her and think she was fat--just as fat as all the other girls, maybe even fatter. Nothing separated her from the parade of thunder thighs trooping up the stairs from the locker room to the gym.

There is nothing like a sanitized present to make one yearn for the wicked past.

Finally, while I don't want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens's Great Expectations over Kathy Acker's Great Expectations, though I'll take Lauren Fairbanks's Sister Carrie over Dreiser's any day--there's a whole other world of novels out there most people never even hear of, much less read. Let's go see.

So: an epic novel of the Tathagata? Yes, but not a very good one. Kerouac would have done better.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest.

The accrual method would show the company to be bigger and more profitable than it would appear using the cash method.

Jealousy and pride were equally vain.

They say there's been no woman her equal since Cleopatra," said Philostratus. "Ah, Cleopatra!" said Galen. "Always the standard against whom any strong female is compared." "And not always as a compliment," noted Gaius, "since Cleopatra was the enemy of Rome, and came to a bad end.

The real difference between Aristarchus and today's astronomers and physicists is not that his observational data were in error, but that he never tried to judge the uncertainty in them, or even acknowledged that they might be imperfect.

As the much quoted lines of a novel of L. P. Hartley put it, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." I

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?