Quotes About Comparison

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

No one in life can ever match fiction

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

We're all not exactly the same person online that we are in real life. I am not as happy as my Instagram makes me look. We are all heightening the positives and downplaying the negatives.

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

This Is Your FBI was inevitably compared to The FBI in Peace and War in the G-Man thriller parade. Radio Life concluded that both were worthy and there was little to distinguish one from the other. This Is was privy to official Bureau files, while Peace and War was mainly fiction. But Peace and War sounded authentic: its author, Frederick L. Collins, had received Bureau cooperation in his research, though the radio version of his subsequent book remained unsanctioned.

She observed that more than one person "could potentially access the same life." She also had brought in her drawings of an anal probe, which compared accurately with a picture that Dave had made independently, except that hers was shown open and his was closed. "The only reason I saw this open," she said, "was because the doctor showed it to me.

But were we so different, my pug and I?

Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.