Quotes About Comparison

No es que lo aborreciera por ser él, sino por el que yo era en comparación con él. Esa es la más intransitable de las envidias, la que se coagula en el estrecho pasaje hacia la confianza en uno mismo.

By God, Giles thinks, it's true: They are not so different from each other. Giles might still, under the right light, bathed in the right water, be beautiful, too.

The human tendency to evaluate one's well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana's distress.

Envy is felt more strongly between near equals than those widely separated in fortune. It does not make sense to envy the Queen of England.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

there is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.

The new anthropology required each culture to be understood on its own terms, as a product of its own evolution rather than as merely an earlier stage in the ascent toward Western civilization.

The German starts by claiming: 'German is off course ze best language. It is ze language off logik and philosophy, and can commuicate viz great clarity and precision even ze most complex ideas.' 'Boeff,' shrugs the Frenchman, 'but French, French, it ees ze language of lurve! In French, we can convey all ze subtletees of romance weez elegance and flair.

The world didn't allow you clean, clear judgments very often, it seemed to Daiyan. He envied those who thought otherwise, who lived otherwise.

One day you look around and realize everyone in New York is younger than you are.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

The peach-out-of-reach in the adjacent orchard is always more alluring than the apple on the ground in one's own.

Az emberi gyengeségr?l éppúgy példa alapján alkotunk képet, ahogy a pecsétnyomó lenyomatot hagy a viaszon.

La admiración es una forma noble de la envidia.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".

You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them.

if Rand was equal to Old

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

La envidia es el homenaje que la mediocridad le rinde al talento.

Wealth — any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Clearly—or almost clearly—the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.