Quotes About Comparison

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.

Men are frail creatures, of course; one does not expect them to exhibit the steadfastness of women.

If an American worker saw you driving a Cadillac, he worked to. earn enough to buy one for himself; the English worker, on the other hand, sought to deprive you of yours.

I don't know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.

There is that constant judgment in this world: How are we going to make sure we do not feel inferior to another?

Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.

But in Jim O'Casey there had been a wariness, a quiet anger, and she had seen herself in him, had said to him once, We're both cut from the same piece of bad cloth. He had just watched her, eating his apple.

La parete era interamente occupata da uno specchio alto e gigantesco. Susan fu costretta a vedere se stessa: una donna dalla faccia pallida e dai capelli grigi, dai calzoni neri cascanti. Al contrario, Helen allo specchio sembrava piccola, compatta, linda e ordinata, con addosso un vestito di maglia aderente e un paio di collant: dove aveva imparato a vestirsi così?

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

We buy things we do not need to impress people we do not like.

For every quality in life—goodness, justice, courage, beauty, loyalty—there has to exist a single standard, a model of perfection of which, Socrates says, "all equal objects of sense Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are only imperfect copies.

armed forces. Compared to the Soviet Union or Great Britain, more women remained at home rather than going to work—more than 60 percent. And the United States converted the least of all its economic output to the war effort, just over 47 percent in 1944 compared to almost 60 percent for Britain and more for Germany and the Soviet Union, only to outproduce everyone else put together, including Japan.5

He believed you could do everything by formulas and fourteen points. God Himself was content with ten commandments

Thou shalt not covet, but traditionApproves all forms of competition.

In Holland vergeleek men hoeren met paarden.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Compared to the life Jesus offers, mammon in any amount is poverty!

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.

There is a greater difference between the genuine Christian and the deceived professing Christian than there is between a living man and a corpse. None need remain in doubt if they will honestly measure themselves by the Holy Word of God.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? (Isa 40:15-18).

The pronunciation of both Sami and Portuguese languages is strikingly similar: the Portuguese evolved from folksy Latin while the Sami evolved from reindeers' howling.