Quotes About Comparison

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.

Hamilton' doesn't compare to anything I've ever done.

Free enterprise runs on self interest. This is socialism and it runs on loyalty . . . if people were going to live by comparison shopping, the town would go bust . . . If you live there you have to take it as a whole. That's loyalty.

Did you know that half of all people are below average?

If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points.

but his cauliflower ears and broken nose made him look like a slightly demented pug.

People tend to overvalue what belongs to them relative to the value they would place on the same possession or circumstance if it belonged to someone else.

What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.

James Garbarino, professor of human development at Cornell University, has spent many years studying the inner life of violent teenagers. He concluded that the feeling of rejection is a major element in the psychological makeup of the violent teenager. Often this rejection grows out of being compared with another sibling.

Who do you suppose loved him more after that?" Simon answered, "I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt." —Luke 7:42–43

Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, "Like mother, like daughter." —Ezekiel 16:44

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

Kind of like a pear, he had thought, with a point on one end and a fat little body; a flying pear.

Being a full prof at the University of Texas at El Paso meant living like a managing director at Barclays. Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. "You're negative arbing yourself," he used to say.

Now he understood why he hated Luis Goodman and other writers so much. He was a damaged person, but not damaged enough to make a life out of it.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country.

You have to realize that, compared with the Korean brand of Confucianism, Christianity is a walk in the park. Compared with what came before, Protestantism is almost a freaking liberation theology.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. "You're negative arbing yourself," he used to say.

They drove to a mall in a former industrial building called Ponce City Market, which was like Chelsea Market in New York, only it was in Atlanta. They climbed up the elevated tracks to a new park called the BeltLine, which was just like the High Line in New York, only it was also in Atlanta.

Wasn't that the whole point of Facebook, to demonstrate to your classmates that you were more than okay in the world?

Viewers routinely spend hours surfing galleries of porn videos searching for the right video to finish, keeping dopamine elevated for abnormally long periods. But try to envision a hunter-gatherer routinely spending the same number of hours masturbating to the same stick-figure on a cave wall. Didn't happen.

With multiple tabs open and clicking for hours, you can 'experience' more novel sex partners every ten minutes than your hunter-gatherer ancestors experienced in a lifetime.

who was big and strong, like you, M. Richard, gave two blows to M. Isidore Saack, who was small and weak like M. Moncharmin

Some people is and some people are knee-high on a grasshopper. Which on ain't you ain't?