Quotes About Comparison

She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able to understand anyone wanting to do. Though I suppose, if you face it squarely, they're no worse than spinach.

If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?

Have you ever seen a man, woman, or child who wasn't eating an egg or just going to eat an egg or just coming away from eating an egg? I tell you, the good old egg is the foundation of daily life. Stop the first man you meet in the street and ask him which he'd sooner lose, his egg or his wife, and see what he says!

They're soul mates. She has about as much brain as a retarded billiards ball, and he approximately the same.

He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition

You can't expect an empty aunt to beam like a full aunt.

He stood looking at the detective like Schopenhauer's butcher at the selected lamb.

She had more curves than a scenic railway

I have named you queen. There are taller ones than you, taller. There are purer ones than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier.   But you are the queen.

Sol de Mar Yo encontre en Isla Negra un dia, un sol acostado en la arena, un sol centrifugo y central cubierto de dedos de oro y ventosas como alfileres. Recogi el sol enarenado y levantandolo a la luz lo compare con el del cielo. No se miraron, ni se vieron.

In the person you care for, you often see parts of the person you wish you were.

Estar cansado no es lo mismo que ser rico, pero la mayoría de las veces es lo más parecido que hay.

And the more sexual images men and women absorb, the more they move from subjective attraction, colored by love and the emotions, to objective attraction, determined by an expertise in the human body that is rarely healthy to acquire. How many women begin to feel that their bodies are inadequate not intrinsically but in comparison to others? Too many.

He held up the AK-47, the muscles in his arm bunching against the weight. "This is an assault rifle." Then held up the handgun. "This is a semi-automatic pistol." Then he gave a little thrust of his hips and looked down at his penis. "That is my gun. As you've discovered, it's pumpaction like a shotgun , but it doesn't fire bullets.

Tessa touched her hand to his cheek. "You're strong, brave, protective -" "So is a Doberman.

as Glamour editor Emma Rosenblum, who recently turned thirty, says: "We're all on different time lines and need to realize that life isn't a race. It's more like one of those huge celebrity walkathons, where everyone's ambling along at her own pace, wearing a really dorky hat and lots of sunblock." By thirty, you should be moving at your own speed.

Hay personas que tratan de ser altas cortando la cabeza a los demàs Sri Yukteswar

Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others!

The elephant, tortoise, snake and other animals noted for their longevity have a respiratory rate which is less than man's. The tortoise, for instance, who may attain the age of 300 years,167  breathes only 4 times per minute.

Hay personas que tratan de ser altas cortando la cabeza a los demás».

Why him? Why not me? He asks the questions over and over, as if one day they might have a different answer, and the burden of guilt be lifted at last.

Parisians and polar icecaps have a lot in common except that polar icecaps are warmer to strangers.

The Atlantic is a cheesy, second-rate ocean," Jordan shouted back, but he was starting to judge the incoming waves again. "It would be okay if it had a hurricane come up the coast every day. But it'll never be the Pacific. Now, you ride, Jack. See that fourth wave forming? Don't be afraid when the bottom drops out of it. That's the board entering the heart of the wave. Just rise to your knees on the first one. Remember, it's all about surfaces.

You'll either think yourself worse than someone else, or better than someone else. Neither of these is good. Stop comparing. - Rick Warren