Quotes About Comparison

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Isn't it interesting how we think of grace as something less than the law?

Is jealousy an expression of love or a sign of insecurity?

The swiping culture lures us with infinite possibilities, but it also exerts a subtle tyranny. The constant awareness of ready alternatives invites unfavorable comparisons, weakens commitment, and prevents us from enjoying the present moment.

A definition I have found helpful is that envy relates to something you want but do not have, whereas jealousy relates to something you have but are afraid of losing. Therefore, envy is a tango between two people, yet the dance of jealousy requires three. Envy and jealousy are close cousins and often become intertwined.

I've been a sexual underachiever my whole life, and I resent Warren for feeling entitled to something that I won't allow for myself!

People punch up," he said. "They punch the ones who are better than them. Nobody likes a kid who does something well. That

There are only two possible outcomes whenever you compare yourself to another, vanity or bitterness, and both are without value.

Henry James said there isn't any difference between the English novel and the American novel since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

O critic? "negativ? se realizeaz? str?lucitor pe lucidit??i m?runte. Lucrul acesta îl ÅŸtia pân? ÅŸi Titu Maiorescu: cita cazul omului de bun-simÅ£ care s-a revoltat c? poetul compar? ochii iubitei cu dou? stele, c?ci este absurd s? g?seÅŸti o asem?nare între ochii mari, negri ÅŸi stelele mici, argintii.

PROFESSOR: Good, let's go on. I tell you, let's go on . . . How would you say, for example, in French: the roses of my grandmother are as yellow as my grandfather who was Asiatic?

I can't compete with the woman in your head, Cam. I don't even know if she's real.

We found a way to compare the pollution in earwax from different cities.

She wanted to be like you." Be like me? A socially ignorant bystander to the world?

For every American who died, the Japanese lost 6 people, the Germans 11, and the Russians 92.

In the calendar year 1943, when 70,000 Western servicemen, including bomber crews, died fighting Germany, two million Russian soldiers were killed, nearly thirty times the number.

Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.

And I... Why, it doesn't matter, because Essi smells of verbena, not lilac and gooseberry, doesn't have cool, electrifying skin. Essi's hair is not a black tornado of gleaming curls, Essi's eyes are gorgeous, soft, warm and cornflower blue; they don't blaze with a cold, unemotional, deep violet. Essi will fall asleep afterwards, turn her head away, open her mouth slightly, Essi will not smile in triumph. For Essi... Essi is not Yennefer.

No sabemos mucho del amor. Con el amor es como con la pera. La pera es dulce y tiene forma. Intentad definir la forma de la pera." Jaskier en "Tiempo de Odio".

Bumbler is right on one account: the aeschna has as much in common with a cinerea as I do with a fox. We both like to eat duck.

For the reason," he shot back, "that last night she made love with me, and not with you.

it is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself

Wszystko ma?e jest odbiciem czego? wi?kszego.

Incidentally," he said with a smirk, "you ate sardines and Vienna sausages in the sand. I dined on surf and turf with an ocean view." He slapped me on the back. "It's all about perspective.