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Quotes About Comparison

You can never compete with someone's first love.
~ Dorothy Koomson
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Why did some people have so much? And yet, compared with Lily, she herself must seem almost rich. Was it all like this? Did every one look with envy at the one above? Funny. And funny, too, that the thought of someone else being worse off than you were yourself should make you feel more cheerful.
~ Dorothy Whipple
Humans are strongly discouraged fro comparing their lives with those of other animals. Yet everything I had experienced taught me that metaphor is the fundamental path of imagining, a first line of inquiry into the lives of other creatures that sheds light on our own.
~ Doug Peacock
I don't argue that new remakes can't hold their own as a great gaming experience, but can they make you feel charmed like you did when you first played the original?
~ Doug TenNapel
On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
~ Douglas Adams
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much . . . the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
~ Douglas Adams
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
~ Douglas Adams
had a test in school and I studied for an entire week, night and day. My friend spent the entire week playing video games and having fun at the beach. I ended up getting an A, and my friend got an F. So what if the teacher said, 'it's not fair that Bren got an A and his friend got an F. So we're going to give you both C's. Still passing, right? So it's no big deal. Still plenty of cushion away from an F. The A earners shouldn't be greedy.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Women may make slightly less—maybe—but the seventy-seven cents to the dollar statistic is what men and women make, on average. It isn't a comparison of the two sexes in the same jobs, with the same experience. It's comparing total earnings across all jobs, which ends up being apples to oranges in many cases.
~ Douglas E. Richards
bright lights," he said. "I'm afraid we're a disappointment compared to Hollywood's
~ Douglas E. Richards
you do have to admit SEAL Team Six has the better name. Infinitely more bad ass, right? Green Beret? Really? I get that your little hats are the distinguishing part of your uniform. But did they really have to name the entire unit after them? I mean, was the name Pink Unicorns already taken?" he finished, bursting into laughter at his own joke.
~ Douglas E. Richards
whatever you choose to believe about the US, believe this: China has become a totalitarian state, and its citizens don't have a fraction of the freedoms that we have here. And don't be fooled by the propaganda. The US isn't perfect, by any means, but it's still a bastion of liberty that continues to be a positive force in the world.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Go on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, and what do you see? Heated, vitriolic arguments. Fake news. Photos taken at parties you weren't invited to. The perfect, curated lives of others that make your own life seem lacking by comparison
~ Douglas E. Richards
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
~ Douglas Horton
Perhaps one reason why people – especially neo-Marxists – are coy about the precise comparisons they are making is that the comparisons they would cite (Venezuela, Cuba, Russia) would reveal the deeper underbelly of their ideology and the true reasons for the negative accounting of the West. But most often the question 'Compared to what?' will elicit only the fact that the utopia with which our society is being compared has not yet come about.
~ Douglas Murray
As Dr Tino Sanandaji has pointed out, it costs more for 3,000 migrants to be housed in temporary accommodation tents in Sweden than it does to fund outright the largest refugee camp in Jordan (housing around 100,000 Syrian refugees).
~ Douglas Murray
If Australia is forever opening up and apologising for its own past while China remains silent, the impression may eventually be instilled, in children in Australia as much as anywhere else, that Australia is the country with more to apologise for.
~ Douglas Murray
there is the one that simultaneously insists that women are in every meaningful way exactly the same as men, possessing the same traits and competencies and able to challenge them on the same turf at any time. Yet simultaneously, magically, they are better than men. Or better in specific ways. All this seems perfectly
~ Douglas Murray
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.
~ Douglas Noel Adams
Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
Modern evangelicals like to compare holy things to soft drinks, designer clothes, [and other products in] our modern consumerist culture. The problem with this is not ... the comparison to a created thing. The problem is that it is ... bad poetry. The Bible compares God to very mundane things, but does so with poetic wonder. God "shall come down like rain upon the mown grass; as showers that water the earth.
~ Douglas Wilson
And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
~ Douglas Wilson
Confronted with the gross and unbelieving history of the Jews, the baptist must say the Old Testament record of the disobedience of the Jews does not apply to our situation, and that to compare them is to compare apples and oranges. But this means he must therefore explain why the New Testament draws parallels where the baptist draws contrasts.
~ Douglas Wilson