Quotes About Comparison

los envidiosos te envidian hasta la miseria.

She dressed to cast her daughter in a frumpy light.

The universe sometimes makes war seem a mere chigger in comparison, but that is in no way soothing to one who has the itch.

You are like a cross between Eminem and the Dalai Lama. You can be really nerdy, and all deep and shit, but you are also raw as hell. Eminem without the bitterness. A Dalai Lama you can get drunk with." Part

Tasting scotch was an intense experience; it didn't have the lovely layering of wines

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

Never compare, thats the key for happyness. Learn from others but dont compare yourself to them, make your way and appreciate it.

Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

In sum, our book is a look at the tale of two stories and a consideration of whether one or the other story places us closer to the real Jesus, closer to our Creator, and, as a result, closer to ourselves.

There's something different about you," he says. "I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh. "Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair.

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.

It was thinner than a portrait painter in Constantinople...

The hatchability of artificially incubated duck eggs often is 5 to 10 percent lower than that of chicken eggs.

Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

we buy things we don't need with money we don't have in order to impress people we don't like.

People were running around buying things they couldn't afford with money they didn't have to impress people they didn't even like

The enemy of "the best" is not "the worst." The enemy of "the best" is "just fine.

Windows 7 is like a pumpkin: handsome and plump on the outside, but a big mess on the inside. So get out your knife and start carving.

The moment you begin to consider having more than someone else, you begin to fear you might end up with less than someone else.

has a square head. It reminds Peter of the square watermelons they grow in North Africa. They grow them in wooden crates so that as the fruit stretches out during growth it forms the shape of its container. He wonders whether Mathers was grown in a wooden crate.

had been a constant source of recrimination and criticism. He measured all people against his own unattainably anal standard. It was a standard which was too pathetically low to be measured, but which through the microscope of his own small mind he saw as perfect. ?But Peter, unencumbered by morality, held nobody to any standard. He knew that where there was no good, there could be no standard.