Quotes About Comparison

Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those who have the fewest vain or selfish desires to gratify.

Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.

Her father's words suddenly came to her, Considering people who are undergoing situations much worse than yours doesn't make yours any easier, but it can help to change your perspective.

Anna was a star athlete at school, while Dawn was one of the last picks for any sporting teams. Dawn

I've been to Golden Gate Park several times. It is beautiful and immense, bigger than Central Park in New York.

It's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.

The biggest library fire in American history had been upstaged by the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.

Compared to the mute towers around it, the library seemed more a proclamation than a building.

Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.

He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.

Despite the starvation and the hard work, some of the prisoners realized that life in Australia was actually better than life back in England. In England, they had been beggars with no way to get land of their own.

The look in his melted-chocolate eyes was now completely non-Disney.

All babies look like Alfred Hitchcock. Or Winston Churchill.

Why are Marines like bananas?" Bobby asked. "Because they're both yellow and die in big bunches

Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say. "A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.

I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?

She's Prim's size in diameter.

One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care," said Dean Highbottom. "Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake. That sort of hubris almost finished us off in the war.

You have as much charm as a dead slug

Tienes tanto encanto como una babosa muerta.

The place did kind of resemble a locker room if locker rooms were gorgeous and smelled good.

Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.

They are white, four-limbed, about the size of a full-grown human, but that's where the comparisons stop. Naked, with long reptilian tails, arched backs, and heads that jut forward.

I thought . . . I'll never compete with that. No matter how much pain I'm in.