Quotes About Comparison

We so frequently feel that we are lacking in many qualities which another person apparently possesses; and then we furnish such a person with everything we oirselves possess and witj a certain idealistic complacemny in addition. And in this fashion a Happy Being is finished to perfection--the creature of our imagination.

His easy going behavior contrasts greatly with my restlessness

My life is being ruined by the internet!

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag

Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.

You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?