Quotes About Comparison

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

Asking who's "the man" and who's "the woman" in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

Envy is the offspring of pride,

comparison with the millions of the world, God's people will be, as they have ever been, a little flock; but if they stand for the truth as revealed in His word, God will be their refuge.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18.

No matter how proficient we are at what we do, most of us are able to find a way to draw comparisons with some ideal or existing yardstick that keeps us from recognizing the value of what we are doing.

when the accomplishments of others seem attainable, they will inspire us; when they seem unattainable, they may be undermining.1

During his life, Feisal had only three wives or possibly four, in contrast to his brother Saud, who had forty-one wives, according to the King Saud Foundation.

Americans pay less for food than do citizens of any other developed nation.

I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.

Thus, if passionate love is like cocaine, then companionate is more like a glass of fine wine - something delicious and pleasurable, but with fewer health palpitations and less mania.

Methods of clerical work in twentieth-century France would not have been tolerated in America in the earliest Colonial days, and surely not before then by the Indians.

Odd, how in the afterglow of someone else's life, your own looks so much brighter.

The world had known but one perfect man, and no perfect woman whatever.

They didn't seem to pray as hard as I prayed, and when God answered, they didn't seem to rejoice as much as I did.

She's elegant," Olivia stated. "I would kill to have her figure." "Really?" "Of course. I have always wished to look precisely like her. Though obviously, not enough to avoid food," she added. "That's madness. You have everything she doesn't." Olivia opened her mouth, ready to argue. "Everything she hasn't." She frowned at him. "Including me.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

everyone always says that Lord Findleshanks is really a woman. Did you ever look at him closely? He does look like a woman.' 'He has a beard,' Harriet pointed out. 'So did my grandmother.

How can I not think of you as Daisy when your hair is all about your face like the petals of a flower?" He crouched down on his heels before her chair and picked up a thick curl. "It's glossy, like sunshine.

The only thing I regret about age are the wrinkles. But I have high hopes for this new almond cream! Do you know, that Italian apothecary promises the cream will make one's skin as soft as a baby's cheek? Once your child arrives, we'll have a viable comparison. Not having seen a baby in years, how would I know what its skin looks like?" "I'm glad my condition will prove to be of use," Esme said rather tartly.

As long as it wasn't another girl.

night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

Or at least, he thought they were specially made, until we played a gig and he saw someone wearing exactly the same kaftan as him. He stopped in the middle of a song and started shouting angrily at him – 'Where did you get that shirt? That's my shirt!' This, I felt, rather ran contrary to the kaftan's associations with peace and love