Quotes About Comparison

And his kiss wasn't at all like his smile. It wasn't crooked or one-sided. It was quite simply... perfect.

I couldn't help but think she'd gotten her chest plus mine. But that was okay, because I liked to think I'd gotten her brains plus mine.

I wasn't totally flat, but my chest resembled hills, while Cynthia's looked more like the Grand Tetons.

I bitterly resent all that wasted time. And what I resent most of all is that the ones I did get never, never looked like the Greek statues." "The Greek-statue types may have been too busy going out with other boys to notice you.

Assess the rightness of a potential partner on his own terms and not just by comparing him to the ones before him - especially if they broke your heart.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Must every action—every word and thought—recall Alena? Swimming, currents, beaches, exhibitions, artists, parties. How long until my bodily presence had half the substance her absence did?

Theodore Roosevelt's quote: "Comparison is the thief of joy.

Many teachers, especially those in more affluent communities, believe they are treated no better than a customer-service representative at a store.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

You mean, you think he's hotter than a billy goat with a blowtorch?" Hazel asked.

You should never be worried about how many likes you're getting but on the life you're creating.

It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me.

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: "The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!" (MC, 149).

Some people confuse the respect that has been earned by fear with the respect earned by love. They are not the same.

Just published Jeff Archer P.I. The Human Icicle . People compare it to Tom Clancy novels but shorter and more fun.

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're intelligent, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their ignorance!