Rupturing Comparison Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.' — Asif Kapadia

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet. — William Ernest Henley

You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it? — Richard Bach

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife — Joaquin Miller

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
[Lat., Victor victorum cluet.] — Plautus

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift ... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive. — Angelina Jolie

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am. — Willa Ford

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I've always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders. — Cole McCade

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage

When I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much. — Daisy Goodwin

The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers. — Terry Pratchett

The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged. — Theophile Gautier