Quotes About Comparison

No! It isn't fair! Rachel is EVERYONE'S type! I mean, she's attractive and athletic and well put together and successful and went to Yale and is making a difference in the world. What about ME? What about nice girls like me, who are just...well, nice? What about the nice girls? How are we supposed to compete with all of these competent, athletic, shower-taking girls, with their diplomas and their Palm Pilots and their teeny tiny butts?

Just because he played his stupid violin at Carnegie Hall when he was twelve does not make him hot.

What a pity, I'd thought at the time, that I'm saddled with Justin, who claims to be a writer but never actually writes anything and then complains that we never go out because I'm too busy writing all the time. I could maybe see myself with a guy like Will. Or maybe even Will himself.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

I am so sick of people who all seem to be smarter than I am and know more than I do. I wanna go back to the farm. These people make my family look easy to get along with.

Don't match your weakness against your opponent's strength

I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders.

That is it, Sophos. You have hit upon my greatest fear. Someone who named himself Bunny is going to outshine me on the battle field.

I'm sure everyone has something about themselves they'd like to change. To dance better, sing better, be stronger or taller. Zikhos snickered. The kings occasional touchiness about his height was well known. The king must have heard, because he said: In Zikhos's case: being smarter than a burnt steak.

dia ingin memastikan dirinya lebih baik dari orang lain. Sedangkan kau hanya ingin menjadi orang yang lebih baik... - Perkataan Aris Kepada Costis

Memories did that to you. They glorified the past until the real thing was often a letdown, making you wonder why you had craved it so assiduously in the first place.

Jill has beauty, sophistication, depth and soul, besides having a remarkable singing voice, how does that compare to Mo'nique?" Wade said angrily.

They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.

Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and count against me.

I didn't accept him, Eliza thought but didn't say, because he wasn't you.

Crap. I thought that picture was you.' He pointed. 'That's not me. That's my mother,' Mal said with a sigh. 'Woah, you really do look like her, you know,' Jay said. 'You two could be twins,' Evie agreed. 'That, my friends, is called genetics,' Carlos said with a smile.

America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper.

The less good stuff we find in ourselves, the more we seek it in others.

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me? Even my parents treat me like I'm stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

Brainwashed to believe that they can only be secure if they have more than the next person, they accumulate and still feel insecure because there is always someone who has accumulated more.

I practiced in Australia for one year as a neurosurgeon, and my malpractice premiums were only $200 a year at that time. Compare this with the $300,000 malpractice insurance fee assessed on a litigation-free neurosurgeon in Philadelphia today.