Quotes About Comparison

From New York they traveled on to Washington, a swamp village by comparison. In

When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much—sometimes ten times as much—as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory.

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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Man, y'all make the Addams family look like Ozzie and Harriet."(Annie)

Será que el tiempo es temperatura?». Si bien había pasado mucho desde entonces, de repente se sintió extrañado al enterarse de que ya se había inventado un reloj que, gracias a las diferencias de temperatura, no se detiene nunca y anda para siempre. Y más raro se sintió al pensar que esa máquina era más sensible que él.

Even a crow thinks its child is golden.

there's something broken about women – and let's face it, they usually are women – who live their whole lives on social media, don't you?

If I've learned one thing today, it's that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods." Detective Stephen Moran

It would take a while to occur to him that my rules had sweet fuck-all in common with his.

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty.

I have no time for people who sigh about how quickly children grow up nowadays (my grandparents, after all, were working full-time by sixteen, which I think trumps any number of body piercings in the adulthood stakes),

I wouldn't say the carpet matches the curtains there," someone else says.

No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game.

Dublin housing prices are a lot like New York ones, except that in New York, you get New York for your money.

Self help book titled 'How To Hate Other People More Than You Hate Yourself

Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.

When we strive to impress or outdo others, we strengthen the underlying belief that we are not good enough as we are.

For so many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much—just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

In his first teaching, the Buddha compares the stages of freeing the mind to recovery from an illness: if we don't first recognize that we are ill, we won't seek help.

Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.

One of the hurdles of adulthood is when holidays become measuring sticks against which you always fall short.