Quotes About Comparison

She tries to imagine Carl getting his pubic hair lasered to make sure he was attractive enough for her, and it's so unthinkable she laughs out loud. And now, because she is female and did all the things expected of her, she's been discarded for a younger, supposedly sweeter model.

He stops before a perfect little painting in which she has pictured her spine as a cracked column. There is something about the grief in her eyes that won't let him look away. That is suffering, he thinks. He thinks about how long he's been moping about Sandrine, and it makes him feel embarrassed, self-indulgent. Theirs, he suspects, was not an epic love story like Diego and Frida's.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

Mr. BlackBerry makes me feel like Miss Gooseberry." The pout again. "I feel like there's always a third person vying for your attention.

Here is the thing about jealousy. It's not a good look.

But it's quite hard not to feel a bit deficient in the Department of Brain Cells.

It's a bit weird, constantly being compared to someone you've never met.

stared at her as she floated down the aisle, wondering how it would feel to be tall and long-legged and look like something most of us only saw on airbrushed posters. I

She looked like a human racehorse.

Don't compare the success of your bus to other buses. Just enjoy your ride.

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

Love is very different from like, ... Like has reasons and logic,... it makes sense.

Hice la amarga reflexión de que quedábamos 13. Uno más que los que tuvo Fidel tras el desembarco del 'Granma'... Pero no era el mismo jefe." --Ernesto Guevara

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

Are you worried you're not like everyone else? Your worries will only worsen when you find that the path to conformity is different for each person.

Humbling as it may be, for all our vaunted brain power, humans emerge as nothing special in the sensory sweepstakes. Our senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are middling, at best.

In many instances, a preoccupation with appearances--unrealistic social expectations, impossible standards--can be the single largest barrier to a satisfying social life.

he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a length of led piping, the trunk of a rogue elephant, a barrage balloon, an airport-sized Toblerone and a roll of wet wallpaper.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn't even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

Each generation tends to see the one after it as weak, whiny, and lacking in resilience.