Quotes About Comparison

He was apparently as many years past forty as Spade was past thirty.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.

Fort Lauderdale is sometimes called The Venice of America by people who clearly have never been to Venice.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt—

but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it.

I think my teeth provide a necessary respite from the eerie perfection of everyone else's.

Mum has made a little model of Dad - it looks nothing like him, of course, at least not when I compare it with his photographs, but somehow it seems to be more like him than the photographs do.

People like to talk about other people's misery; it makes them feel their own life is somehow better when it usually isn't.

Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

Everyone has a different lot in life. This is yours. What they have is theirs.

What's a quick fling in the sack compared to decades of indifference?

Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don't think anyone can really quantify it—that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with

THE PLAZA HOTEL DID NOT look like the far more famous one in New York City on the edge of Central Park.

Damn it, why couldn't I have a photographic memory! Thank God you don't, Caleb exclaimed in a disgusted tone. What makes you say that? Reuben demanded hotly. Because then she'd be calling you Ruby, and I'd have to be sick to my stomach.

I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he`s up there with Bryan Ferry.

You cannot get off the treadmill simply by running faster. All you can do by that mechanism is temporarily pass others, until they respond by running faster too, with the long-term consequence of having the whole field increase their speed just to stand still. The victor in such a race is not the runner, but the treadmill.

Your orbit is certainly big and fancy in comparison with mine. But I don't understand how that makes you a better person than I am, or how it follows that I'm inferior to you.

Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.

As he grew, the other children grew as well—all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig

Nosotros, por tanto, vemos en Cristo todo lo que Adán debió ser, pero que nunca fue. Cristo recogió la urdimbre de humanidad que Adán había hecho caer y la llevó a su plenitud completa.

To be envied, admired, is not a feeling. Nor is fame it feeling. There are feelings associated with fame, but few of them are any more enjoyable than the feelings associated with envy of fame.