Quotes About Comparison

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?'

I get mad at my mom. I really wish she'd put me into hockey. I'm not gifted with height, but look at Martin St-Louis. He's unbelievable. He's small, but he's so fast, so skilful. I think I could have been pretty good.

If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.

I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.

Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.