Quotes About Comparison

There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender.

Image of a Roman wax tablet, which looks very like an iPad.

Thomasina (to Septimus) How is a ruined child different from a ruined castle? Septimus On such questions I defer to Mr Noakes. Noakes (out of his depth) A ruined castle is picturesque, certainly. Septimus That is the main difference. (to Brice) I teach the classical authors. If I do not elucidate their meaning, who will?

Não devemos concorrer com o mundo nas áreas em que ele é muito competente, ou até melhor que nós. Mas existe algo com que o mundo não é capaz de competir: a presença de Deus.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

In a way she was jealous of death.

The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

And you look like the north side of a southbound mule.

If there is somebody with bluer eyes than mine, then maybe there is somebody with the bluest eyes. The bluest eyes in the whole world.

the girl's face was as tight and mean as broccoli

But where is the brilliant research, the enlightening books, the masterpieces I used to dream of producing? Nowhere. Instead I write notes about the shortcomings of others. Easy. So easy. What about my own?

They deliver right away and with no pain. Just like horses. The young ones smiled a little.

The brothers approaching the cellar were once identical.

I respect those most who do what I want to do least.

If we compare the gap separating rich and poor, whether measured by overall assets or annual income, we find that in every continental European country as well as in Great Britain and the US, the gap shrank dramatically in the generation following 1945.

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And she envied Caleb's knowledge. She only had bits and pieces, scraps and rags. He had a whole cloth.

He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.

Nance is funny that way. She likes women her own size--like your sister. She knows where she is with a woman like Martha. Whereas Molly--she's so--well, so full of life, she makes Nance feel even sicker.

of all the cities he had been to—Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City—San Francisco was by far the worst.

Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children.

People are shallow things. If anyone has even a bit more than they do, they're jealous, and if one has less, they look down on her.

Anyone with any brains can see I much prefer you over the brownies. For a start, it's impossible to seduce a brownie in the shower—they just fall to pieces.