Quotes About Comparison

You envy her. How come she doesn't have the weight of ambition? You pity her. How come she has no ambition?

I always look at the list of viewers and do you know what it was like to look at that list and see your name less and less?' FUCKING INSTAGRAM AND NO ONE SHOULD LOOK AT THAT FUCKING LIST.

Books don't get any more commercial and anti-chap than Stephen Fucking King (unless you want to talk about Dan Brown, but you can't compare the two because Dan Brown's not literary).

You will always choose the Peaches and Benjis of the world over me because you're loyal to the gentry.

Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

How can they be that poor, when our kingdom is so rich?

we look for people that are gold in the place where we're shit and shit in the places where we're gold

See that girl just ahead of us? With that headband?" "Yeah?" "She's Debbie Reynolds's daughter." There was a slight pause before she added, "She thinks she's so great." Wow, right? Uncanny how she so perfectly nailed me straight out of the box. I just thought I was incredible.

And based on the lives depicted on those shows, I knew my life was a different sort of real. It was the only reality I knew, but compared to other folks—both on television and off—it eventually struck me as a little surreal, too. And eventually, too, I understood that my version of reality had a tendency to set me apart from others.

She is really nice and everything, but totally not made of awesome the way Issie is.

Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.

I wondered why Westerners were so enthralled with a religious activity that didn't incite much enthusiasm even among its own people in India.

You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

If anyone is trying to make you jealous of their own heaven, they are clearly not happy enough there.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

They were like two landowners in Pompeii arguing over who had the better view of Vesuvius.

And that year Australians officially became the richest people in the world, overtaking the British and the Dutch on the measure of GDP per person.

Can you tell the difference between our margarine and our hair tonic? WE can't.

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

By what right does the wolf judge the lion?