Quotes About Comparison

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

Nothing," she said. "But I've seen better handwriting from animals without opposable thumbs.

If the laws of division were correct, a Motel 3 would be half as good as Motel 6. And right they were. It resembled a two-story slab of pancake-colored timeshares, the paint looking like it hadn't received a second coat since before Sherwin married Williams.

I could feel her burrowing into my heart. I didn't know if the burrowing was like a kitten cuddling up to its mother or if it was like a chigger depositing its larvae underneath the skin of my ankles.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

la felicidad de los demás fastidia

ninguno debe ofendernos que alguien se conforme con nosotros, a falta de quien fue mejor.

Sosem vehetjük zokon, ha valakinek jobb híján velünk kell beérnie.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

Y que la sospecha permanente a su vez no es tolerable, porque resulta extenuante observarse sin cesar a uno mismo y a los otros, sobre todo al otro, al más cercano, y comparar con los recuerdos que jamás son fiables.

El resentimiento pertenece a los jugadores mediocres.

las personas desdichadas se empeñan en averiguar muchas veces la magnitud de su desdicha, o en indagar vidas ajenas para abstraerse de las suyas.

I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

Ninety-three percent of American motorists believe they are better-than-average drivers. In a 2007 BusinessWeek poll, 90 percent of the managers surveyed believed their performance in the workplace to be in the top 10 percent.4

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

Had she been born 500 years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. Tendrils of bright red hair framed her face, a spray of freckles powdered her nose, and she was as plump as a perfectly ripened peach. Raphael probably would have painted out the freckles, and that would have been a mistake. Like brushing cinnamon off cinnamon toast.

the cult of Same is all the chic; by instruments, both span and spic, are justly measured Spic and Span:

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

This is most people's reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or called good or bad by the phantom self, the ego.