Quotes About Comparison

He has trumpeted Russian moral superiority over Western individualism, degradation, and duplicity

thirty-thousand-dollar face-lift in the West is perhaps two thousand dollars in Russia

With roughly half the population of the United States, Russia now has about the same number of addicts.

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ROMANS 8:18

Before you pity yourself, take a great deal closer look at others, and then decide with who you would or could change places and what sacrifice of your nature you would be prepared to make in order to do so.

He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne sais quoi, and all he talks about is this magical place called 'Canada'.

You are where you are, you don't have to judge it, although some of the old poems might be more interesting than some I might write tomorrow.

Sie lernt Wüstenbewohner- // gesten. Arabisch lernt sie auch, aber nach vielen // Mühen gibt sie es wieder auf, denn sie ist // unvergleichlich weniger begabt für Sprachen als fürs // Revolutionieren.

Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.

the Self-Loathing League.

Adams and Jefferson exchanged a series of letters comparing the virtues of the French character to the dour and gloomy English: the French "have as much happiness in one year as an Englishman in ten

Don't you mind, Jottie? Don't you want to have what other people have? Just the regular things, you know, like a date or a kiss or a marriage?

In the movie, the matrix was built to be a more comfortable version of the world. Our brains, likewise, have evolved to make our version of the world more comfortable: our beliefs are nearly always correct; favorable outcomes are the result of our skill; there are plausible reasons why unfavorable outcomes are beyond our control; and we compare favorably with our peers. We deny or at least dilute the most painful parts of the message.

This phenomenon is called the better-than-average effect.

Being in the losses is as much a state of mind as anything else. We don't see ourselves as being in the gains, even though we've gone farther than where we started, because we're not measuring ourselves by how far we are past the starting line. We're measuring ourselves by whether we're short of the finish line.

Et devant toutes ces femmes qui, naturellement, se détestent toutes entre elles.

There were the other girls, with their empty bellies, and there was me.

Je note ces choses pour comparer avec ce qui précède et suivra, ce dont je ne suis jamais sûre.)

The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met.

Pour un homme. Et quand je le vois, là, dans le hall de l'ambassade, je le trouve insignifiant, joli garçon, c'est tout. Je relis Anna Karenine.

We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.

The only person you need to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.

The codfish lays ten thousands eggs, The homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell you what she's done. And so we scorn the codfish, While the humble hen we prize, Which only goes to show you That it pays to advertise.

Can you tell Stork from butter?