Quotes About Comparison

Thomas More still has some credit with the king. And he has written him a letter, saying," he manages to smile, "that I am Wycliffe, Luther and Zwingli rolled together and tied up in string—one reformer stuffed inside another, as for a feast you might parcel a pheasant inside a chicken inside a goose.

How torturing, she thought, is the situation of fools who know they are fools; and how pleasant is Claude's state, by comparison.

Will they be the same, my lord?

Metaphors are good,' he said. 'I like metaphors. Metaphors don't kill people.

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

The dull-hued turkey apes the gait Of lordly peacock, richly plumed; And thus the poetaster shows When he would fain his verse recite.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

You guys are so small...

In the Great Hall of the Linz Library are the busts of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the greatest of our thinkers, in comparison with whom the British, the French and the Americans have nothing to offer...It is on the foundation of Kant's theory of knowledge that Schopenhauer…conquered the pragmatism of GWF Hegel. I carried Schopenhauer's works with me throughout the whole of the First World War. Schopenhauer...has been far surpassed by Nietzsche.

Jag har gråa dagar och svarta stunder. Jag är inte lycklig. Dock känner jag ingen som jag ville byta med; mitt hjärta krymper ihop vid föreställningen att jag kunde vara den eller den bland mina bekanta. Nej, jag ville inte vara någon annan. ... Jag tycker inte särdeles mycket om mig själf, hvarken skalet eller innanmätet. Men jag ville inte vara någon annan.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me.

Someone's really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?

What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school?" I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.

If I cannot be better than them, I will be so much worse.

He oído que para los mortales, la sensación de enamorarse es muy parecida a la sensación de miedo. Tu corazón late rápido. Tus sentidos se intensifican. Te sientes aturdido, tal vez incluso mareado. ¿No es cierto? Explicaría mucho sobre los de tu clase si es posible confundir los dos.

Hazel had received a baby doll that, if you filled it with water, you could squeeze and make it pee, even though she'd wanted a sword like her brother's.

how am I supposed to be worse than the folk ?

Even if, by some miracle, I could be better than them, I will never be one of them

If I cannot be better then them, I will become so much worse

Beside them, anyone might as well be a shadow, a blurry reflection of a reflection.

if i can't be better than them i'll become much worse

If I cannot be better than them, I will become much worse.