Quotes About Comparison

I wonder what the kid I was then would think of the people we are now.

If I can't be better then them, I will become so much worse

I have heard that for mortals,the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear

I see Taryn across the room, Locke beside her. Her eyes widen, taking in whom I am standing with. Something passes over her face, and it looks a lot like resentment. She has Locke, but I am here with a prince.

She is a mirror, reflecting someone I could have been but am not.

If I can't be better than them , I will become so much worse

Am I beautiful like you are?" I ask Nicasia, genuinely curious. "No," she says, darting a look toward Valerian. She picks up something from the ground. "You are nothing like us.

jealousy wasn't a spice to me then. It was the whole meal and I was gagging it down.

She turns to me. 'I thought we were nothing alike, you and I. But it turns out we're just the same.' I don't think she believes that to be a good thing.

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.

When I'd tell my mother about these women around me - and how sometimes I felt that I didn't measure up - she'd chastise me for getting sucked into their nonsense. 'How do you expect to get where you want to go if you're rubbernecking at everyone else along the way? Don't focus on what you wrongly perceive as your shortcomings.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Elle était jolie par juxtaposition.

The idea originated in a comparison between Humanity and Animality

Si les Français ont autant de répugnance que les Anglais ont de propension pour les voyages, peut-être les Français et les Anglais ont-ils raison de part et d'autre. On trouve partout quelque chose de meilleur que l'Angleterre, tandis qu'il est excessivement difficile de retrouver loin de la France les charmes de la France.

Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant. Come to think of it, this might be a good place to start.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.