Quotes About Comparison

It's always nicer, I think, to be a big frog in a little puddle than to be an unrecognised croaker in a great, big pool.

Your grandmother's being bedridden has no more to do with it than the cat." Lydia was prone to seek the cat for exquisite comparison. Persons, with her, could no more sing—or dance—than the cat. She found the cat, in the way of metaphor, a mysteriously useful animal.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

Which one of us was more? He was always more.

I hate the blues; I hate being worse off than someone else.

She often noticed it was only when we shared the same qualities that we recognised them in other people.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk

It has been said that a girl grows up to choose a man who either bears a striking resemblance to her father, or one who is nothing like him. Both choices are, at their core, reactions.

Perfection is only a standard set by the human mind as to what it desires.

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

Grounded her for two months. Her dad thought it excessive. We smoked pot when we were that age, Matt said, missing the point. Yes, we smoked pot when we were fourteen, but Emily wasn't us. She was better than us.

I'd had my professional successes that, considered by themselves, totted up to a pretty impressive list but a list that, compared to the quota of failures, paled into a best-forgotten insignificance.

In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons.

the eve of the Civil War, Washington College's student body—just 93 students in 1859—lagged behind the student population of the University of Virginia (419), Hampden-Sydney College (119), and even

What Applebee's was proposing was like Rick Bayless's endorsement of a line of chicken sandwiches for Burger King

Not unhappy is not the same thing as happy.

She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a little as she told him, "You are so like your father." Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend stood by the door with his arms crossed. "What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you." And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.

If you ever wonder whether or not someone is too good for you, I'd advise going through their trash. Really. No one looks superior after that.

I felt like Barbie's less-than-perfect friend.

Grant didn't look like a sophomore - Grant looked like Brad Pitt's body double.

She reminds me of…me." "Then clearly she can't be trusted.

Logan watched her speak. Her voice was the same, but her mouth was different. Why had Logan never noticed her mouth before? Her bottom lip was fuller, but the top lip was shaped like a little bow, and he couldn't decide which lip he liked more. He knew he was going to have to do a lot more looking in order to choose. And it suddenly felt imperative that Logan choose very, very well.