Quotes About Comparison

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

Success is somebody else's failure.

Esteban Arcadievitch sonrió; conocía perfectamente los sentimientos de Levine y no ignoraba que, para éste, todas las jóvenes del universo se dividían en dos categorías: una compuesta de todas las jóvenes existentes, llenas de todas las debilidades humanas: las señoritas comunes. La otra, formada solamente por 'ella', sin la menor imperfección y por encima de la humanidad entera.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

Compare Facebook posts to Gutenberg's Bible, and civilization seems to be going down the drain. But compare tweets to indulgences, and it's much of a muchness.

For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another,"I follow Apollos," are you not mere men?

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

But who needs memories, Ian thought, when you can have Instagram likes?

The women in his family looked like turtles who'd lost their shells.

By virtue of the fact that they expect so much less than poor Americans—they don't care about movies, clothes, and cars—they are more content than the poor people in America.

This reminds me of something funny Mama said the last time she came for a visit. I had taken her and the girls to an early morning swim meet, picking up some coffee and bagels on the way. Mama didn't say a thing when I bought the food, but the funniest look came over her face when she bit into her bagel. "Well!" she said. "Whoever thinks this is good has clearly never tasted a biscuit!

Dogs have hair. Cats, fur. Dogs whine, yip, howl, bark. Cats purrr. I say: No contest.

What do you mean "Ewww"? How is my tuna breath worse than peanut butter?

I made more money out of writing those four songs for Ozzy than I made out of fifteen years of Motörhead – ludicrous, isn't it!

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." "But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.

If you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keeping your pimple in perspective. You might compare your pimple situation to that of someone who was being eaten by a bear, and when you looked in the mirror at your ugly pimple, you could say to yourself, 'Well, at least I'm not being eaten by a bear.

I am a writer and comparing things is part of my occupation. Over the years I've learned to compare almost anything to almost anything else. I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.

I can compare sadness to a car because both are quite capable of running me over.

I found myself facing a man and a woman who looked so much alike, they could only be twins, or two people who had been married for a very long time. They both had pear-shaped bodies with short, thick legs and grumpy-looking arms, and it looked like they had both tried on heads that were too small for them, and were about to ask the head clerk for a larger size.

I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.