Quotes About Comparison

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

Life is like a simile.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Life is like an analogy.

High School Is Life's Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

The Children of this world are in their own generation wiser than the children of God

Well, maybe he was Jesus but his hair could have used a comb.