Quotes About Comparison

Height - ours and our boyfriends - is a running contest between Lecia and me. If I tell her good news about myself, she's liable to say 'I'm five-nine' and hang up.

Most kids bent their heads onto their notebooks and tried to sleep. One boy gauged the quality of his day by sleeping on graph paper, then drawing a circle around the drool spot he'd made and comparing it for size and integrity to his drool spot from the day before. For

Her mother's injunction on competing with other girls is a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down: You just have to be smarter than the ones who are prettier and prettier than the ones who are smarter

Unfortunately, most of us end up with somebody who's somewhere between Jed Clampett and Homer Simpson.

She's about as deep as an Arizona mud puddle.

The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken.

Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva. Erika, I'm a dried up husk. Don't say that, Mary.

Moeller, who has tasted a naked Cheeto, likens it to a piece of unsweetened puffed corn cereal

Analogies drawn from the inspection of hen's eggs foundered on the objection that man was not a chicken.

The human brain most resembles that of Jersey cows at about six months."*

comparing traditional bouillon with gelatin-based broth. The latter was "more distasteful, more putrescible, less digestible, less nutritious, and . . . moreover, it often brought on diarrhea.

Others likened Diana to Jack Kennedy. Both had died too soon and too suddenly, cut down in their prime, to be remembered always as youthful and vibrant. One dear friend consoled me by saying, "Remember, Mary, she'll always be thirty-six, young and beautiful." Another close friend wrote, "We'll never know what she's been spared.

He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing

Is there such a feeling as love at first sight? And if there be, in what does its nature differ from love founded in long observation and slow growth? Perhaps its effects are not so permanent; but they are, while they last, as violent and intense.

God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.

Aku memuja langit yang kosong, sebab langit lebih baik terhadapku daripada manusia sesamamu.

Aduh! Mengapa manusia harus selalu membual bahwa daya pikirnya jauh lebih tinggi daripada yang dimiliki binatang? Ini menyebabkan manusia terlalu banyak menuntut kebutuhan hidup.

She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar.

But I am not so wretched as you are

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.

the meanings of two words: "envy" and "jealousy." The former was a way of desiring something that someone else had and you lacked; the latter was resenting someone's taking possession of something that was yours.

America was the very definition of modernity; it was the country that Russia had failed to become.

Si soffermò a riflettere sul proprio comportamento. A casa della vittima si entra in punta di piedi e scalzi, a casa della madre dell'eventuale aggressore si entra a passi pesanti. Ma chi è più vittima dell'altra, di queste due donne?

I don't have to," replies the philosopher. "I only have to outrun you.")