Quotes About Comparison

And believe it or not, you look very much the way Mimi did when she was young." "I do?" I almost began to cry again.

Later, Mom found the pictures of Mimi. We compared pictures of Mimi at twelve to pictures of me at twelve. We could have been twins. That night, I slept with one of the pictures of Mimi under my pillow.

Berman points out that this sort of thinking has led the Israelis to be frequently likened to the Nazis in the European press.

why it is worse to lose something than not to gain it.

the disparity between Eastern and Western spirituality resembles that found between Eastern and Western medicine—with the arrow of embarrassment pointing in the opposite direction

She must have been French, because she had more hair under her arm than I did. 

The problem with a lot of church people," Craw said, "is that they're trying to be holier than Jesus.

The problem with a lot of church people, Craw said, is that they're trying to be holier than Jesus.

Indeed, the Pentagon famously has only slightly fewer people serving in marching bands than the State Department has diplomats.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

He who forms his opinion of himself in solitude, without knowing the powers of other men, is very liable to error. - On Alexander Pope

The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.

so easily is he praised, whom no man can envy.

So much are the modes of excellence settled by time and place, that men may be heard boasting in one street of that which they would anxiously conceal in another.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?BibleProv.xxvii. 4.

The thing about capturing a prize fish is that everyone admires the fish, and soon forgets about the fisherman. You love the thing that makes you special, then hate it because it's the thing that makes you special.

La mia anima ha la stessa importanza dell'anima di una principessa, anche se come rango io mi trovo alla pari del più umile schiavo.

Il filosofo che contemplava il teschio di un re e quello di un povero, non vi ravvisò differenza.

It was difficult to sympathize with a protagonist whose dilemma was mild when compared to her own.

comparison. His eyes were hazel, and his arms ended in white bandages just below the elbows.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

He stands up, slowly, and puts his hands on the zipper of his jeans, where I notice there's a bulge that looks like someone stuck a cucumber in his pants. That can be his...thing, can it? He undoes the button then his fly and then slides his jeans down. He's wearing those tight boxer-briefs things, like that guy in the Calvin Klein commercial, and I realize, it's definitely not a cucumber.