Quotes About Comparison

Just because somebody is ahead of you doesn't mean they're better than you. Just because somebody's more developed than you doesn't mean they're more talented than you. Just because somebody beat you doesn't mean they won and just because somebody didn't win doesn't mean they lost.

Your so fat you got more tonnage than the U.S. navy.

As the gods are everywhere and nowhere at the same time, they can interact on many levels. This information is critical. As humans, we tend to place limitations on people, places, and things. Deities, in many respects, are not bound by laws of limitation and lack. That would be like comparing an ant to a human being.

Is this Niamh woman as …" He gestured to Rose with a vague wave of his hand. "As awesome as me?" Rose answered, glaring at him. "Yeah, she is." "That wasn't the word I was thinking of.

This is in line with what the Yalkut notes: when King David finished composing the Book of Psalms, he boasted to the Holy One, blessed be He, "Master of the Universe! Is there anything in the world that lifts up its voice in song like me?"—upon which a frog appeared before him and said, "Do not be so proud of yourself. I sing more than you do.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Onun ya?ad??? yerde ya?amak, onun gibi ya?amak de?ildi.

Çünkü az?nl?kta kalanlar, çok olanlara nedense tepeden bakarlar.

Küçük resim öyle gözümü yumup bakacak gibi fena de?ildi. Sen en fena resimde bile güzelsin Aliye. Sen her zaman herkesten güzelsin.

Only one thing had her balking: his cool kiss. Especially when compared to Mr. Pinter's hot ones. Curse that man. No matter how much she told herself his kisses hadn't meant anything, her wounded pride wanted to believe otherwise. Her wounded pride insisted they'd been too passionate to be meant only as a lesson. Her wounded pride was a blasted nuisance.

I've seen how he looks at you. It's how I look at the last bit of bacon on the serving plate. He likes you"--Cousin Freddy to Maria.

Belief is just like morality. People who believe something often think they are superior to others.

It is amazing how human beings struggle just to do what every worm, insect, bird, and animal does quite effortlessly.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

there seemed to be a higher code of ethics and sisterliness among those prostitutes than among numerous ladies of the church who have more men for kicks than the prostitutes have for pay.

All I had was to improve on their strategy [...] anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Anytime you see someone more succesful than you are, the are doing something you aren't

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life—that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

I swear I'm licked before I start, trying to tell you all what Mr. Onselm looked like. Words give out — for instance, you're frozen to death for fit words to tell the favor of the girl you love. And Mr. Onselm and I pure poison hated each other. That's how love and hate are alike.

Words are not the things they name. Saussere says they take distinctive meaning by contrast with other words. A square is a square because it's not a triangle, not a circle.

Mon père disait qu'il ne faut jamais comparer les gens, chaque personne est différente, l'important est de trouver la différence qui vous convient le mieux. Cléa était ma différence.

Si l'enfant que tu étais rencontrait l'homme que tu es devenu, crois-tu qu'ils s'entendraient bien ensemble, qu'ils pourraient être complices ?

I took heart seeing that it was possible to stay modest and low-key and still do the work you wanted to do, that being competitive might actually muddy or even obliterate your own vision because you were so busy comparing, looking over your shoulder.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.