Comparers Quotes & Sayings

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did? — Ann Coulter

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. — Harry S. Truman

Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year! — Jules Renard

It's too late. He's already learned how not to drown. — Celeste Ng

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so. — Shelby Lynne

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning. — Thomas J. Stanley

Good things must have comparers, I suppose,' said Portia, 'Or how would we knowhow good they are? — Elizabeth Enright

gratuitous masturbation
of the
psyche. — Charles Bukowski

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors. — Mary Wollstonecraft

You want to change things, Joe, but you can't. Not like this. You can't save what's been left behind. Only what's in front of you. — Maria Rachel Hooley

Barbie wasn't sure there was that much difference between city mice and country mice when they were under stress, but he kept his mouth shut. — Stephen King

Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep. — John Milton

He stood there, glowing like the sun, and stared at her like she was the unbelievable one. — Sarah Addison Allen

Em and her people have hurricane hearts. And me? I must cultivate a heart of ruby fire from now on. The power of ruby fire is different from hurricane power. Everyone can see a hurricane coming, and so they shake with fear. The ruby fire no one can see coming until it arrives - and so they shake with fear. — Francesca Forrest

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. — Jack London

Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant. — James Arthur Ray

The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which means 'doubt' - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives. Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order. In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead. — Elizabeth Gilbert