Quotes About Comparison

Oh, Summer, I'm sorry. It's just that he's so totally hot, and… not as hot as Ryan, obviously." "Obviously," I say, trying to keep a straight face.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Maybe you want to believe that every other guy is just like you, because that means that you don't have to worry about the way you are.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

You may laugh at us for having "too much tea," but may we not suspect that you of the West have "no tea" in your constitution?

the fish that live in the water are better than human beings who live on land or in the forest. They don't talk viciously. They swim and float in the deep sea and spend their time so happily.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.

Can angels lie spine to spine? If not, how they must envy us humans

She was the portrait to his father's Dorian Gray – all the anxiety you'd expect him to feel was manifest in her.

You think you can compare your disgraceful demands to the terrible decisions I have to make for the good of the company and this family?

Lucky,' Zahra said, and Maryam grinned. She liked nothing better than to be compared to Lucky Santangelo, heroine of the Jackie Collins novels, composed in equal parts of courage, ruthlessness and loyalty.

What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?

My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.

Came to acting pretty late. It looked wonderful, but I guess I was intimidated by my father. I look a bit like him, and he was so much bigger than life and so great, it took me a bit longer than most people to have enough confidence in myself.

I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

Maybe I was intimidated by my father's talent and success.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

If you're investing in a company in the Bitcoin economy, you have to compare the valuation of the company to the valuation of the entire economy.

Playgrounds are like microcosms of the world, aren't they? So you look around and you go, 'This is the world, is it? It doesn't work for me. I'm not the beautiful one, I'm not the popular one, I'm not the funny one. There are all these types and I'm not any of them.' And when you're not any of them, you're sort of invisible.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.

If there's another iPhone that's better, that's sad for my old iPhone. But it means we get to use a better one.

I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.