Quotes About Comparison

The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

One cannot be free from the stresses of a speed- and size-obsessed culture, until you are free from the materialistic addictions, time-famine mindset, and comparative impulses that created it in the first place.

The borderline individual does not accept her own intelligence, attractiveness, or sensitivity as constant traits, but rather as comparative qualities to be continually re-earned

It seems to be the rule of this world.  Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want.

Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want.

Par che a questo mondo la regola sia questa. Ogni persona ha ciò che non vuole, e ciò che vorrebbe l'hanno gli altri.

Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want. Married

It seems to be the rule of the world. Each person has what he doesn't want, & other people have what he does what.

Would you like to compare what you do around here with what I do?

I'm not Beethoven!

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

I'm afraid she'll look at him in some way that she doesn't look at me. I'm afraid that when I go to bed at night I'll still be wondering. I'm always afraid. Is that what love is— fear?

At the same time, we held back. Because she was Different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against. She was unknown territory. Unsafe. We were afraid to get too close.

Hazel eyes a little too close together, like bowling ball holes.

I've always been surprised at how it stings, the laughter of small men. The smaller the man, the more the laughter hurts, as if saying, I may be nothing, but you are less.

She believed that he would be incapable of hurting her as Graham had.

They were all like siblings, Mr. Kapasi thought as they passed a row of date trees. Mr. and Mrs. Das behaved like an older brother and sister, not parents.

I've always felt in someone's shadow, even though I don't have to compare myself to brothers who are smarter, or to sisters who are prettier. There's no escape from the shadows that mount, inexorably, in this darkening season. Nor can we escape the shadows our families cast. That said, there are times I miss the pleasant shade a companion might provide.

Always at the end of a queue, in the shadow of others, she believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.

And yet, certain physical aspects of Rhode Island—a state so small within the context of America that on some maps its landmass was indicated only by an arrow pointing to its location—corresponded roughly to those of Calcutta, within India. Mountains to the north, an ocean to the east, the majority of land to the south and west.

Nobody's going to like my next movie because they liked Trainwreck [2015]. It has to work on its own, and that keeps it really scary.

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.

... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.