Quotes About Comparison

Tess," I said. For a moment, Emilia and I studied each other. She was tall, with strawberry-blond hair and eyes that walked the line between green and blue. She wore almost no makeup, except for a light gloss on her lips. "So you're Ivy Kendrick's sister," she said finally. "I thought you'd be taller." "I'll get right to work on that." Emilia cracked a very small smile.

Oh God. I'm jealous of farts.

You hated the idea of me." "But not you. Never you." "I wanted Eve to be different," Grayson told me. "I wanted her to be you." "Don't say that," I whispered. He looked at me one last time. "There are so many things that I will never say.

Why do people report themselves to be as happy as they were back when we all had less? Well, for one thing, we are comparing two societies that are both majestically wealthy in comparison to almost all societies throughout history. Neither the surveyed Americans of the 1950s nor those of the 2000s were struggling with endemic distress- hunger, pain, humiliation. And average people who are not in such distress are statistically more likely to call themselves happy than not.

You're probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone's better at math than I am, but it's okay, I'm fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few.

jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from the inside

I've never realised how hard we are on our bodies. I think, Why are we so mean to ourselves? Why aren't we happy with what we have?

My whole life I've run either three times faster than everyone else or three times slower.

I try not feel jealous of the fact that he's been checking in with them but not me. After all, they're his family. I'm only me, the most important person in his life, for a while at least.

Jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from inside

I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it. He sounds like a dock. Lord Sundron put in. Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning, Linnet said a dock might be just the thing for me.

My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

When I neglect the gospel, I'll want nice vacations and nice compliments and nice things to make my life nicer. I'll long to be able to compare myself favorably with others and to know that I am successful. I'll look down on those who don't meet my standards, and I'll idolize those who excel. I'll forget that he is preeminent.

il n'envisageait que les biens célestes, ne pouvant comprendre qu'on mît en balance une éternité de félicité avec quelques heures d'une joie périssable.

Il serait beaucoup plus intéressant de comparer cette peinture simplifiée avec les gravures japonaises qui lui ressemblent par leur élégance étrange et leurs taches magnifiques. L'impression première que produit une toile d'Edouard Manet est un peu dure. On n'est pas habitué à voir des traductions aussi simples et aussi sincères de la réalité.

Whenever he had spoilt a piece of work he always set himself below the meanest labourer who had at least brawn enough to do his job. (53)

For a moment he was filled with envy, revolt, and bitter jealousy. He asked himself why he was poor whilst others were rich.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

Nu ÅŸtiu din ce sunt pl?m?dite sufletele noastre, dar ÅŸtiu c? al lui ÅŸi al meu sunt la fel. (...) Iubirea mea pentru Linton seam?n? cu frunzele p?durii, timpul o va schimba, îmi dau bine seama, aÅŸa cum iarna schimb? pomii. Iubirea mea pentru Heathcliff îns? e asemeni stâncilor eterne de sub p?mânt: nu prilej de încântare, ci necesitate.

Si él la amaba con toda la fuerza de su alma mezquina, no podría nunca, ni aunque viviera ochenta años, amarla tanto como yo en un solo día

And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!