Quotes About Comparison

A lot of people wouldn't feel miserable in this environment. A lot of people aren't dating my girlfriend.

Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, 'The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

If I seem better than you, you like me more. If you feel you have no chance with me, you like me more.

The death of contentment is comparison.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

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The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

I won't snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You're worse than my mother, Rachel." "Mine, too," Jenks muttered.

But he was in his fifties and there I always question how hard can they get. With a younger guy you know it's an easier thing. With an older one you don't know.

Jewish resentment could be just as bad as the Irish resentment.

Suddenly she looked a little like General Noriega.

Gordon MacDonald said, the world can do anything the church can do except one thing: it cannot show grace.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

I have to say that I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of course. But if He had tried a bad birth He would know what pain is.

Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.

Her beauty completely erased by jealousy.

I knew that I was smiling her smile, that she was a dark mirror to me.

You are lucky in your looks," she says. "Your mother was always a beauty and you are very like her: fair, slender, skin like a rose petal and that wonderful hair, gold and bronze all at once. Undoubtedly you will have beautiful children. I suppose you are still proud of your looks? I suppose you are still vain?" I

I know I am a better woman than her. She's ice and ambition, and she would see you on the gallows before surrendering her ambition. And I know that in me he has a lover who loves him for himself. But Anne has dazzled him, and dazzled the court, and dazzled even you.

But to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.

They'll just have to prove they're stronger and bigger and smarter and faster, when they're really dumber than doorbells and slower than snails," said Eddie.