Quotes About Comparison

My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.

Oh my God, I think. I envy people who are so easygoing, but I also don't understand them at all.

Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made of the same stuff as table sugar. Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by.

Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I

everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy.

The Ptolemaic system has been compared to that of Soviet Russia; it stands among the most closely controlled economies in history.

She took the Saturday Review's 1962 test, "Your Literary I.Q.," and outscored VN by a long shot;

In terms of their power over other adults, the sheer force of their monomaniacal self-interest and their utter lack of shame, they may be compared to only one other group of humans on the planet: babies.

It's like everything else. The price of Torahs is higher in Alaska.

Everybody judges from the point of view of his own inadequacy.

Many women feel like a failure as a woman.

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.

He was shorter than an average eight-year-old boy but exceptionally tall for a tulip.

Dad, I'll never do any better. He's smart and funny and good-looking.. Stephanie, he took both my hands, how could you do any worse? Best rhetorical question ever.

In pride we consciously elevate our own standing and concerns and look down upon others as essentially inferior.

For seven rooms with two baths and three fireplaces, a typical price was $45,000. Lauren Bacall's fourth-floor spread facing the Park was priced at $53,340. The smallest flats—one-bedroom, one-bath, nonhousekeeping units that had been guest rooms on the second floor—were priced at $4,410.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone