Quotes About Comparison

The things I will invent will be, I suspect, mundane by comparison with the truth. And as I said, it's my intention that you should not know the difference. I plan to interweave the elements of my story so cunningly that you'll cease to even care whether an event happened out there in the same world where you walk, or in here, in the head of a crippled man who will never again move from his stepmother's house.

She got up and crossed to the window. Like father like daughter, he thought: window freaks, both of them.

Split by an increasingly militarized border, El Norte in some ways resembles Germany during the Cold War: two peoples with a common culture separated from one another by a large wall.

Oh. Really? Smith? The most common, boring name in the world? - Evaline, to Pix

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.

Craftsmen and artisans created items that were brittle rumors compared with his father's iron facts.

Miss Lucy recoiled from the comparison. If you can't see the difference between good, upstanding people and the mentally disturbed, with criminals and imbeciles, you're not the person I thought you were. I'm not the person you thought I was.

Att se bojor på en annan människa och vara glad att de inte är ens egna – sådan var den lycka som stod färgade till buds, de som definierades av hur mycket värre det närsomhelst kunde blir.

If that happened to the harmless places, what do you think the haunted places looked like?

That is the fantastic thing about the National Socialists, that they simultaneously share in a community of ideas with Soviet Russia and with Zion.

Socialism has now become completely or almost completely identical with Bolshevism; that

An American woman once confronted me with the reproach, "How can you still write some of your books in German, Adolf Hitler's language?" In response, I asked her if she had knives in her kitchen, and when she answered that she did, I acted dismayed and shocked, exclaiming, How can you still use knives after so many killers have used them to stab and murder their victims?

No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny. No situation repeats itself, and each situation calls for a different response.

To compare yourself with anyone else is to do an injustice either to yourself or to the other person. [...] For everyone has a different kind of start. But the person whose start was more difficult, whose fate was less kind, can be credited with the greater personal achievement, other things being equal. Since, however, all aspects of the situation imposed by fate can never be assessed, there is simply no basis and no standard for a comparison of achievements.

No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny.

They form man's destiny, which is different and unique for each individual. No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny.

could send everyone in America to live under the dictatorship in Turkmenistan. Or to spend a little time in a New Delhi slum. Maybe they'd gain a little perspective about how good they have it. But I can't. So instead, they'll listen to politicians tell them how they're getting

I prefer men to cauliflowers

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer.

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.

Nothing so cuts the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.