70 quotes found
“We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.”
“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation ...”
“But he saw a rare determination in Haley's eyes. I can trust Haley's judgement, he told himself, even as he remembered how Haley had eaten that cheddar with the mold growing on it two weeks before....”
“It's a most peculiar psychologythis business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a good thing. Then why do they say 'Science is ba...”
“I followed many conversations about what happened in Norway and the death of Amy Winehouse because they happened one after the next. Too many of those conversations tried to conflate the two events...”
“Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes ps...”
“All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the value of counterpoise to recognize and distinguish between sim...”
“Were stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but were all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.”
“You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.”
“Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our life against tha...”
“The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point”
“God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being reached. He has put inside of each of us an unique song, that only another heart can hear clearl...”
“It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla”
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different w...”
“Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.”
“Judgmentis one of the egos tools to foster separation through comparison.”
“he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.”
“The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.”
“If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve anoth...”
“Let us not look at the talents we wish we had or pine away for the gifts that are not ours but instead do the best we can with what we have.”
