Quotes About Comparison

Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness.

Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed.

The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and . . ." "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. The view from Mir put everything in perspective.

When we measure our worth by the approval of others, we are only as valuable as our last compliment or accomplishment.

it was never in doubt that you had suffered more than I when young.

I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember?

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

That makes our hearts sink more than anything else, really, that the childless and the mothers are equivalent, but it must be so—that there is an exact equivalence and an equality, equal in emptiness and equal in fullness, equal in experiences had and equal in experiences lost, neither path better and neither path worse, neither more frightening or less riddled with fear.

What a chicken I was. I couldn't bear any aspect of living. Especially that old custom: that you have to live a better life than everyone else.

With his previous two wives, David hadn't felt like this. He

I thought it was bad when they made me wear this Jane Austen–suitor outfit, complete with cravat. But you! You look like you just escaped the set of Braveheart.

You sure are good with cats—for a canine." Dez sat down on the couch opposite Smitty, her son asleep in her arms. "Not as good as you, my sweet Dez." "Well, darlin', you lack the equipment for that.

He's jealous of you." "Is that right?" "Of course! Because no matter what he does, when he puts on your shorts and one of your bras, he never looks as cute in them as you do.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.

If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who've been directing all their lives.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.