Quotes About Comparison

Since 1990, Oklahoma has executed more convicts on a per capita basis than any other state. No place, not even Texas, comes close.

There are a few good ones, but most are losers who are too stupid to realize they are losers. And who are we to tell them? They are vastly superior to us, regardless of their stupidity, and they enjoy reminding us of this.

It's a sad culture. People live in a frenzy. They work all the time to make money to buy things to impress other people. They're measured by what they own.

Mary of Guise, herself barely a year older than Lennox and still one of the most beautiful women in Scotland

At most, a certain resemblance might have been observed.

And what exactly was it that had been "collated"? Had all eight Casket Letters been scrupulously checked

Philip II had come to resent the fact that his wife was eleven years older than he was.

Mary found this insulting. It implied that she was Elizabeth's inferior.

Sumptuousness of this kind was unknown in Scotland. James V's belongings had been more modest.

England was so much richer and more powerful than its northern neighbor.

Its population was around 3.5 million, Scotland's barely 850,000.

The language of the lowlanders was in fact much closer to northern English

more damaging loss to his reputation than that suffered thirty years before by his father, James IV

she continued so relentlessly to set her sights on recognition as the heir to a woman who was only nine years older

A fascist is anyone who, seeing a man working hard and earning money, says, He's getting more than we are, let's pass

What do you think I imagine making love to a vagina would be like? Maybe like having sex with a ballroom!

Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Peabodys', where Dr. Larch went to perform his second abortion – the rich people's abortion, as Larch thought of it. Wallace Worthington would strike Homer Wells as what a real King of New England should look like.

According to Frank, religion is just another kind of taxidermy.

A cripple's life is one of watching others do what he can't do

Her posture, which was generally excellent, crumpled; for a moment, Jack was almost as tall as she was.

At eleven or twelve, girls think they look awful. They have ceased being children, at least in their estimation, but they have not yet developed into the young women they will become. At that age, there are great differences among them: some have begun to look and move like young women, others have boys' bodies and move as if they were shy young men.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

Everyone I know has a fine big sedan, Mrs. Levy said as she got into the little car. Not you. No. You have to own a kid's car that costs more than a Cadillac and blows my hair all around.

The only purpose of economic forecasts is to give astrology a better image.