Quotes About Comparison

Most people our brought up to believe they are as good as the person next to them, I was told I was better.

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People say, when I complain of being less lively, less energetic, less high-spirited, "Well, now you're just like the rest of us," meaning, among other things, to be reassuring. But I compare myself with my former self, not with others.

What advantage does it bring a man to be so tall? For every high-dangling pear I reached there's been an arrow threatened me would have flown over a smaller man!

Wszyscy mamy gorsze dni. Ale w porównaniu z tym co mieliÅ›my przedtem, czujemy, jakbyÅ›my dopiero teraz... ?yli peÅ'niÄ… ?ycia.

Fuck you. That's why you shaped like a pack of Twizzlers.

Tori walked toward the bed. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her give Derek a once-over. You know, from this angle, he doesn't look too bad, she said. I glared at her. I'm just saying . . . I leaned over Derek, calling him as loudly as I dared. Personally, I'm more a running back girl myself, Tori said. But if you like the linebacker type, he's-- My glower shut her up

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

You're the one who doesn't understand, Lev said. In America, I have my own car. There's more food than you can eat, all the booze I want, all the cigarettes I can smoke. I have five suits! What's the point in having five suits? Grigori said in frustration. It's like having five beds. You can only use one at a time!

He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.

Such talk makes you think of radiation like water in a pool: if it's four feet high you're safe, if it's eight feet high you drown. But in fact radiation levels are much more like speed limits on the highway – thirty miles per hour is safer than eighty, but not as safe as twenty, and the only way to be completely safe is not to get in the car.

Sa, anch'io gioco un pochino a tennis, e pensavo...» «Se lei gioca a tennis solo un pochino, allora probabilmente non è al mio livello.»

They were the same height and weight, and could wear each other's clothes. But Lev had charm by the ton. He was unreliable and selfish, and he lived on the edge of the law, but women adored him. Grigori was honest and dependable, a hard worker and a serious thinker, and he was single. It would

Lizzie found his equanimity incredible. What kind of people were these miners? Though their lives were brutally hard their spirits seemed unquenchable. By comparison her own life seemed pampered and purposeless.

there are more Muslims than Christians in the world. So somebody's church is wrong.

Allies had stood on the sidelines, fighting minor wars, joining in only for the last eleven months. All their casualties put together were only a fraction of those suffered by the Soviet people.

As the proverb says, if you're offered two bad apples you pick the least rotten one. And that's Kang.

The fundamental message is self-righteous, and it takes this form: 'T. S. Eliot is a homophobe and I am not. Therefore, I am a better person than Eliot.' To which the proper response is: 'But T. S. Eliot could really write, and you can't.

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.