Quotes About Comparison

C'mon! Anything over eight inches is strictly for show-and-tell. It's there, but you can't use it. It might look good in a locker room, but let's face it—those extra two inches are leftovers." "Leftovers," Luna gasped, holding her stomach and shrieking with laughter. "Let's hear it for l-leftovers!

He's never made you feel like a woman," he said, with insultingly accurate perception. "You're as luscious as a ripe peach, and the fool's left you on the vine. To my way of thinking, that makes him an oddity, like the mummified Indian I saw once.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Try not to look sideways to see how others are viewing our lives but to look up to see how heavenly father sees us.

When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.