Quotes About Comparison

when he was a little kid he'd had trouble understanding why those poor children in China were more important to them than he was.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

My week beats your year.

Jealousy is a tough thing to carry because it causes us to compare and compete. It silences us from celebrating and affirming. When we live in families that compare and compete, but can't celebrate and affirm, we live at war.

Las redes sociales pueden ser algo bueno cuando se usan bien. Pero si las usamos para medir cuánto valemos, estamos perdidos. Si vivimos para conseguir la aprobación de la gente, moriremos a causa de su rechazo.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Louis Kronenberger

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

In pointing out this parallel, I do not suggest that Hesiod is somehow the Greek equivalent of Moses or that his Theogony is to be granted the same status as Genesis.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Sometimes the past seemed like enough, in comparison with the disappointments of the present.

Being jealous] is like drinking acid, and expecting the other person to die.

But odd as his family might be, they were nothing compared to this. In fact, that was one of the great comforts of his job. At least his family compared well to people who actually killed each other, rather than just thought about it.

Myrna understood how damaging it was to compare pain. To dismiss hurt just because it wasn't the worst.

Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears.

If stupid was sand, he'd be half the Sahara.

Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell of decomposing bears.

Of course the opposite is also true. No one is as good as the best thing.

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.