Quotes About Comparison

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.'

There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!

There were situations in my career where I played much better than another player in my position, but that player had a better name in terms of commercial appeal.

To reach the appearance total of Xavi is impossible, I'm not thinking about that.

I always seek people's approval and I'm always never good enough.

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

I don't have a family that grew up singing and playing all the time. I didn't really have anything to judge my abilities against until I got out into the professional world and met other professional musicians. All I had was my own way of arriving at a song. That was it.

I would never say I give less to Roma than I do to Arsenal; it is just that the emotion is different.

It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles.

I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'.

I wouldn't say I'm better than Ashley Cole but I would like to think I am up there with him.

Na província, não há escolha nem comparação a fazer: o hábito de ver as fisionomias dá-lhes uma beleza convencional. Transportada para Paris, uma mulher que passa por bonita no interior não desperta a menor atenção, porque não é bela senão pela aplicação do provérbio: Em terra de cegos, quem tem um olho é rei.

Do what we will, women do not, and never will, possess the qualities which are characteristic of men, and these qualities are absolutely indispensable to family life.

But how explain the perennial vigor of envy? — a vice that brings nothing in!

My dress, which dazzled me as I paraded alone in my white-and-gold drawing-room, was barely noticeable amidst the gorgeous finery of most of the married women. Each had her band of faithful followers, and they all watched each other askance. A few were radiant in triumphant beauty, and amongst these was my mother. A girl at a ball is a mere dancing-machine — a thing of no consequence whatever.

And I went on to deliver such a diatribe while comparing botany and the world, that we ended miles away from the dividing wall, and the Countess must have supposed me to be a wretched and wounded sufferer worthy of her pity. However, at the end of half an hour my neighbor naturally brought me back to the point; for women, when they are not in love, have all the cold blood of an experienced attorney.

Los ojos comparan antes de que el corazón haya rectificado este rápido y maquinal juicio.

Trasladada a París, una mujer que en provincias pasa por ser bonita no llama la menor atención, porque solo es bella según el refrán que reza que «en el país de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey».

l'invidia è una confessione d'inferiorità

ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro.