Quotes About Comparison

wymowa j?zyka saamskiego i portugalskiego jest zaskakuj?co podobna. J?zyk portugalski wywodzi si? przecie? z ludowej ?aciny, a saamski z porykiwania reniferów.

Pinches carros gringos —gruñó Villa, molesto—. ¿Que no, ingeniero?… Poco hay mejor que un buen caballo. Una mujer, si acaso.

All cultures must be judged in relation to their own history, and all individuals and groups in relation to their cultural history, and definitely not by the arbitrary standard of any single culture.

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

Vocês foram injustiçadas em muitos períodos pela estupidez, machismo e prepotência dos homens. E vocês cuidaram de nós carinhosamente, seja no seu útero biológico seja no útero social. Agora, novamente, vocês estão sendo maltratadas e controladas, Só que desta vez no cerne da sua psique. Não permitam. Vejam-se belas. Sintam-se belas. Não se comparem a ninguém.

La comparación sólo es educativa cuando es estimulante y no despreciativa.

To say that a grasshopper should work like an ant is a piece of foolishness perpetuated through centuries. The grasshopper won't change. In any case it is the ant who should change.

Don't compare yourself with others. We are all different, living different lives.

Marriage is a meal where the soup is better than the dessert.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me.

This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so much better run, better led, and made for such better lives than the places we came from? Shouldn't the places where Allah was worshipped and His laws obeyed have been at peace and wealthy, and the unbelievers' countries ignorant, poor, and at war?

in response to a US interviewer who mocked her appreciation of relative US freedoms) I read Alexis de Tocqueville, and I read about democracy, and I lived in countries that had no democracies, that had no founding fathers, so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you do not know what it is not to have freedom.

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

Compare two people, one of whom has been crippled by an accident, the other by an early environmental history which makes him lazy and, when criticized, mean. Both cause great inconvenience to others, but one dies a martyr, the other a scoundrel.