Comparison Quote by Amor Towles

“I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.” quote by Amor Towles — Download Open image

“I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.”

Amor Towles

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Comparison Enough Freedom Giving Liberty Lifetime Manageable Moments People Rely Talking Time

More by Amor Towles

“To have even one year when you're presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course- that's by the grace of…

Amor Towles

Image

“Rather than sitting in orderly rows in a schoolhouse, wouldn't one be better served by working her way towards an actual horizon, so that…

Amor Towles

Image

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Amor Towles

Image

“Mostly, he said, I've been thinking about what I'm not going to do. When I think of the last few years, I've been hounded by regrets for what's already happened and fears for what might. By nostalgia for what I've lost and desire for what I don't have. All this wanting and not wanting. It's worn me out. For once,…

Amor Towles

“In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without…

Amor Towles

Image

“That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why, not only…

Amor Towles

Image

“Mishka would pine for Katerina the rest of his life! Never again would he walk Nevsky Prospekt, however they chose to rename it, without feeling an unbearable sense of loss. And that is just how it should be. That sense of loss is exactly what we must anticipate, prepare for, and cherish to the last of our days; for it…

Amor Towles

Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.

Amor Towles

Image

“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.”

Amor Towles

Image

“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. We are familiar with the songs our grandparents favored, after all, even though we never danced to them ourselves. At festive holidays, the recipes we pull from the drawer are routinely decades old, and in some cases…

Amor Towles

“For it is the role of the parent to express his concerns and then take three steps back. Not one, mind you, not two, but three. Or maybe four. (But by no means five.) Yes, a parent should share his hesitations and then take three or four steps back, so that the child can make a decision by herself—even when…

Amor Towles

“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort…

Amor Towles

Image

Explore all 266 Amor Towles quotes

More Comparison quotes

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth…

Elizabeth Prentiss

It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

Maria Montessori

Image

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less…

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they…

Pope Francis

Image

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I…

N.K. Jemisin

Image

President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against…

David Garrow

Image

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

Barbara Kolb

Image

I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at…

Chuka Umunna

Image

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one…

Laurence Sterne

Image

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable…

Charles Dudley Warner

Image

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

Anuj