Quotes About Comparison

Pour juger de la beauté d'un ouvrage, il suffit de le considérer en lui-même ; mais, pour juger du mérite de l'auteur, il faut le comparer à son siècle

Some people mention the mistakes of others not to learn from them, but to claim they are perfect.

You are beautiful because you are beautiful, not because the other is ugly.

Guided by the comparison of prices, private enterprise distributes food all over the world, always beginning at the point of greatest scarcity, that is, where the need is felt the most.

Tu connais la différence entre l'amour et l'herpès ? L'herpès dure toute la vie.

Une famille, c'est un groupe de gens qui n'arrivent pas à communiquer, mais s'interrompent très bruyamment, s'exaspèrent mutuellement, comparent les diplômes de leurs enfants comme la décoration de leurs maisons, et se déchirent l'héritage de parents dont le cadavre est encore tiède.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

Did the squirrel realize how lucky he was to be there? Or on the contrary did he spend his life wondering whether he might not be better off somewhere else, or feeling that he didn't have the life he deserved? In the end, it depended on the comparisons the squirrel was able to make

Lesson no. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

by adding together these three differences - between what we have and what we'd like to have, what we have now and the best of what we've had in the past, and what we have and what other people have - you get an average difference which is closely related to happiness. The smaller the difference, the happier we are.

Looking as like… as one pea does like another.

I consumi in Cina sono oggi 11 volte superiori a quelli occidentali. Quando la Cina raggiungerà il nostro tenore di vita, i consumi mondiali raddoppieranno di volume.

I have to try hard—but I do succeed—to not burst out laughing when he compares my breasts to a perfectly cooked creme brulee—'souple mais ferme.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

But easier, she reminded herself, was not the same as better.

She had always known that she was rated less than Howard, the treasured son. Now, however, she knew that she was ranked somewhere below "miscellaneous cuttings.

Suddenly he remembered Josh sitting on the motorbike and chatting with the bikers outside the pub—and he felt a throb of jealousy. It wasn't that he harbored any desire to sit on a motorbike, but...he wanted to be allowed to want to sit on a motorbike.

Qué es un instante de dolor comparado con una vida llena de amargura y desilusión?

Es decir, si eres feliz con lo que tienes en tu vida y no deseas nada que no poseas ahora mismo, serás más feliz que alguien que tiene mucho más que tú, pero sigue deseando cosas que no posee.

Jesus tells us not to be misled by the voices of strangers. There are so many strange voices being heard in the religious world of our day. We must compare what they say with the Word of God.

Christianity is being compared with other religions as never before. Some so-called Christian leaders even advocate the working out of a system of morals, ethics, and religion that would bring together all the religions of the world. It cannot be done. Jesus Christ is unique.

Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it easier than our forefathers, we have more uneasiness. Though we have less real cause for anxiety than our predecessors, we are inwardly more anxious.

We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.

Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.