Quotes About Comparison

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. The words made me choke up again, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear. God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

How're the Broncos doing? Like a bunch of carrots. Is that bad? Can carrots play baseball? I guess not. Then you have your answer.

the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

Now, she could't help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.

She accepted things because there was nothing else to compare them too.

No es que te esté dando órdenes, sino que quiero probar la sinceridad de tu amor en comparación con la dedicación de los demás.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.

I can't grow a moustache.

The comparative strength of each piece depends entirely on circumstance; their movements are so different that it is essentially impossible to effectively compare them on anything other than a case-by-case basis.

I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself.

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

There are more movie stars in the lobby of the Aquadulce than there are in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

I should have realized that what's good for movie stars doesn't work for a Cabinet secretary's wife.

There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.

Richard Landis is a modern-day Mozart, almost.

There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.