Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present

Because you’re a child and you have no way to compare your life to other people’s lives. Your foremost need is to stay safe within the only life you know.

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.

So, you who wish to have an exemplary character before God and before men, remember that, if ill company does not burn you to your hurt, it is sure to blacken you by damaging your reputation.

I wasn’t a misanthrope and I wasn’t a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Sometimes it seems to me I’ve known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

I don’t like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a playe

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself and its seed. When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with… that of former times, we see that “chemical imperialism” has been… the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

Every time I close my eyes, it’s like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.

No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars.

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

My whole career, when I was in Croatia, people questioned me, saying I wouldn’t make it, that I wasn’t good enough because I wasn’t big and strong.