Quotes About Comparison

Sin embargo, allí estaba él, con las mismas exigencias que los otros, como si quisiera arrebatarle algo que era suyo y llevárselo en el bolsillo.

Pero Jordan estaba a mi lado y, al contrario que Daisy, era demasiado prudente como para arrastrar, de época en época, sueños olvidados.

Jei kada nor?si k? pasmerkti, prisimink, jog ne visi žmon?s tur?jo toki? galimybi?, koki? tur?jai tu.

Should is my all time least favorite word! It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

contentment has to do with what we accept, what we expect and what we measure our current situations against.

This has led to an oft-quoted analogy that an atom's structure is similar to the solar system, the essential differences being the overall scale and that there is electromagnetic instead of gravitational attraction. However, this is a poor analogy for several reasons, one being that in reality the atom is far emptier than the solar system.

We should never measure our God-given assignment against someone else's assignment.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.

U usporedbi s beskona?noš?u, sve što se naziva dugoro?nim zapravo je kratkoro?no.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Era possível comparar o infortúnio de um só com a agonia das multidões?

Shakespeare es como el puré de patatas, no cansa nunca.

She should have gone to some other dentist; the young fellow on the corner, for instance, the poser, the rider of bicycles, the courser of greyhounds. McTeague began to loathe and to envy this fellow. He spied upon him going in and out of his office, and noted his salmon-pink neckties and his astonishing waistcoats.

Man is always so," said Father Willibald, "be he heathen or baptized; content with his lot only as long as he meets no neighbor who possesses more.

Det är illa gjort mot en sjuk man att likna honom vid en smålänning

His bed needed all the good craftsmanship that had gone into its making to keep it from splitting asunder as he would grip one of its beams to heave at the oar of his sleep; and he often said that there was no happiness in the world to compare with that of awakening from such a dream and finding it to be only a dream. Three

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

For I underestimate myself, and that itself means an overestimation of others

I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble at save the injustice of Providence that has so clearly favored me.

Leo en Dostoievski el pasaje que tanto se asemeja a ser desdichado

Man mußte nur über irgendeine Sache glücklich sein, von ihr erfüllt sein, nach Hause kommen und es aussprechen und die Antwort war ein ironisches Seufzen, ein Kopfschütteln, ein Fingerklopfen auf den Tisch: »Hab auch schon etwas Schöneres gesehn« oder »Mir gesagt Deine Sorgen« oder »ich hab keinen so geruhten Kopf« oder »Kauf Dir was dafür!« oder »Auch ein Ereignis!«

No lo haces de forma intencionada, son las circunstancias las que te empujan a ello, pues quieres demasiado a Amalia y deseas verla superior a todas las demás; pero al no hallar nada suficientemente elogiable en la propia Amalia para justificar ese pedestal, rebajas a las demás mujeres para lograr tus propósitos.