Quotes About Comparison

Dahlia felt the cabin was growing smaller with each introduction. Each man stood tall with wide shoulders and bulky muscles. She felt ridiculous standing near them.

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

by the 1790's an average American over fifteen years old drank just under six gallons of absolute alcohol each year. . . . The comparable modern average is less than 2.9 gallons per capita. We

Fair point. I suppose dressing up in hot countries simply involves putting on shoes. A bit like Wales.

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

The barbaric vernacular word for roasted human in New Guinea and elsewhere was long pig: I have never had the relevant degustatative experience myself, but it seems that we do, if eaten, taste very much like pigs.

One page, one paragraph, of Hawking is more awe-inspiring, to say nothing of being more instructive, than the whole of Genesis and the whole of Ezekiel.

But Islam when examined is not much more than a rather obvious and ill-arranged set of plagiarisms, helping itself from earlier books and traditions as occasion appeared to require.

My challenge: Name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever. I have since asked this question at every stop and haven't had a reply yet.

In a society in which the dream of success has been drained of any meaning beyond itself, men have nothing against which to measure their achievements except the achievements of others.

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou Or any man that breathes on earth.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

I've got to think that that was unethical, Joshua said. Josh, faking demonic possession is like a mustard seed. How is it like a mustard seed? You don't know, do you? Doesn't seem at all like a mustard seed, does it? Now you see how we all feel when you liken things unto a mustard seed? Huh?

I like my tea like I like my men," Audrey said. Jane looked at her quizzically. "Weak and green," Charlie said.

It was an eight-harlot inn, if that's how you measure an inn. (I understand that now they measure inns in stars. We are in a four-star inn right now. I don't know what the conversion from harlots to stars is.)

Jealousy makes you feel bad, but God is jealous, so it must be good. Yet when a dog licks its balls it seems to enjoy it, but it must be bad under the law.

Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions.

Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to. Especially if they resent both.

What is character, if not a man's measure of himself against his friends and enemies?

He is angry when he leave today. Like bear," said Mrs. Korjev, who was possessed of an atavistic compulsion toward ursine simile.

Theo looked over at Gabe's ex-girlfriend, considered the heels, the stockings, the makeup, the hair, the lines of her suit, her nose, her hips, and felt like he was looking at a sports car that he could not afford, would not know how to drive, and he could only envision himself entangled in the wreckage of, wrapped around a telephone pole.

Meine Gunst? Ich sagte, er sei kein kompletter Schwachmat. Das ist keine Gunst, das ist nur ein wohlwollender Vergleich mit all den anderen, von denen du umgeben bist

Chrysler and stood him up behind the Ford, where

To say that Effrom was not a particularly good cook was an understatement akin to saying that genocide is not a particularly effective public relations strategy.