Quotes About Comparison

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.

In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.

Everyone's always concentrating on first love. No one seems to care much about second love. or third. Or Fourth love. First love, that's the one that's always celebrated and documented like it never happened before to anyone, anywhere.

Why does she always have the moral high ground, what is it about women, always behaving so well and thinking of things we should have thought of first and shaming us?

The only difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England, Franklin joked, is that the former is infallible while the latter is never in the wrong.

Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.

Like my Kindle paper-white but no substitute for a hardcover book. JKA

I think we are all better off looking across at someone, rather than up. Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, "There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.

An elephant says to a camel, 'Why are your boobs on your back?' The camel says, 'That's rich, coming from someone with a dick on his face.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

spiritual accountability proved insufficient for Peter, because no outward teaching can compare to the inward power of the Holy Spirit.

All the human talent, cleverness, and church-growth methods in the world can never compare with the invisible but very real blessing of God. The

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Vending machines kill more people each year than sharks. Statistically, you are twice as likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Everything is a metaphor for everything else.

The performance demands that most people face in their everyday work environments dwarf those of any professional athletes we have ever trained.

America is the only country in the world in which employees work more hours per week than the Japanese.

also may explain why the prison population in America consisting of more than six million people, exceeds the number of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in its history.

Mr. Gaddis admitted the school wasn't much to look at before dropping the first match and lighting another. "But it's better than nothing." It is nothing! I screamed. Inside my head, of course. And I might even have said it out loud except I was too shocked to open my mouth. Johnnie Hatter's hole in the riverbank is probably better than this.

Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

When people talk about "success" It's just an unfair standard that they created to apply to people in their own league

I turn my back to Jess while we both get dressed. I'm sweating. Please don't let me have any weird feelings. Please don't let her look at me. Please don't let her be like Leah.