Quotes About Comparison

That's an answer in the same way that ketchup can be hair gel.

As picky as a woman with her shoes," Abraham grumbled. "Hey," I said. "That's insulting." I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.

That soup tasted better than the blood of my enemies. Considering I'd never actually tasted the blood of my enemies, perhaps that didn't do justice to the soup.

Prof's ability makes mine look like a piece of rice. And not even a cooked one.

I can't bully you," I said. "You're taller than I am.

That night, it rained on the other dogs, who slept outside in the cold barn, which leaked. But the little dog snuggled into a warm bed beside the fire, hugged by the farmer's children, his belly full. And as he did, the dog sadly thought to himself, 'I could not become a dragon. I am an utter and complete failure.' The end.

I'm Teoish," Sarene said, successfully spearing something that looked like a marinated piece of shrimp. "We're all this tall." "Father's Teoish too, Kaise," Daorn said. "And you know how tall he is." "But father's fat," Kaise pointed out. "Why aren't you fat too, Sarene?

Whenever I'm thinkin' my life is miserable, I remember him, and tell myself, 'Well, Wayne. At least you ain't a broke, dickless feller what can't even pick his own nose properly.' And I feels better.

Men often described the girl as having hair the color of wheat. Others called it the color of caramel, or occasionally the color of honey. The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women's features. There was a hunger to such men that was best avoided.

As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake." "Wow...," I breathed. She frowned at me. "That was a great metaphor," I said. "Oh please." "I need to write that down," I said, ignoring her complaints, fishing for my new mobile to type it out.

he was six and a half feet tall and had a jaw so straight it made other men question if they were.

It's horribly unfair you managed that on your first try," Kaladin noted. "It took me forever.

Don't be silly," she said. "Why would elevators be more advanced than stairs? Obviously, stairs take more effort to climb, are harder to construct, and are far more healthy to use. Therefore, they took longer to develop. Don't you realize how stupid you sound when you claim otherwise?

You should never debate an idiot, Shallan. No more than you'd use your best sword to spread butter.

The things that others have always seem better than what you have

Adolin might claim he was a different from his father, but in fact they were two shades of the same paint. Often, two similar colors clashed worse than wildly different ones would.

I'd gone on such a rampage that I would have made the proverbial bull in the proverbial china shop look unproverbially good by proverbial comparison. (Personally, I don't even know how he'd fit through the door. Proverbially.)

Do not dismiss your own talents because you envy those of another.

a terrible idea executed brilliantly has to be better than a brilliant idea executed terribly. I mean, look at pelicans.

The dog chewing on your ankle is pleasant compared to the one that used to be chewing on your head." "Nice metaphor," I noted.

It's good by comparison only! Yes, there are worse places, but so long as this hellhole is considered the ideal, we'll never get anywhere. We cannot let them convince us this is normal!

it is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Do not deny your own talents simply because you envy another's.

When has any man ever been content with what he has?