Quotes About Comparison

Hüsamettin Albay?m! Hamlet ya?asayd? ?imdi tümgeneral olmu?tu, de?il mi?

Nereden ba?layaca??m? bilmiyorum: tereddüt-ler içindeyim. Kimse de yard?m etmiyor. Asistan ba??ma di-kildi. Benden iki sat?r fazla bilmenin gururu içinde. OysaGauss'un yan?nda benim gibi o da bir hiç. Fark?nda de?il.

Neler okudu?unu sordum. Surat?n? buru?turarak: 'Bir sürü macera roman?,' dedi. Sonra gururlanarak: 'Cyrano de Bergerac'? da okudum,' dedi. Durdu. 'Burnu sizinkine benziyor.' Bu ?akay? bana çok yapt?klar?n? söyledim. Bozuldu. 'Haberim yoktu,' dedi.

Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone...

In the history of mothers there had certainly been better, but in fairness to history there had most certainly been worse.

My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can't do with an ugly one? Nothing. It's just a matter of preference.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Very Like a Whale

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Yet most of these worlds were really no worse than our own. Like us, they had reached that stage when the spirit, half awakened from brutishness and very far from maturity, can suffer most desperately and behave most cruelly.

Democracy functions in Protestant nations. It barely functions in Catholic nations. It doesn't function at all in Orthodox nations.

Ludzie maj? pot??n? potrzeb?, ?eby czu? si? lepszymi od innych. Niewa?ne, kim s?, musz? mie? kogo?, kto by?by gorszy od nich.

Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?

Infants and old people look the same.

Asher has learned that people have a powerful need to feel superior to others. It doesn't matter who they are – they have to find someone who's beneath them.

We speak of grown-ups being "tall," but a child is "long.

It was all pretense with her when she returned his various little signs and signals. How pitiful to be so old one isn't even tempted to flirt any more! How amazing to be so crazy about your own child that being crazy about a man loses all interest and excitement in comparison.

[To Dr. Johnson:] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.