Quotes About Comparison

You're pretty full of yourself. You're marveling at the tragic spectacle of Caleb Trask—Caleb the magnificent, the unique. Caleb whose suffering should have its Homer. Did you ever think of yourself as a snot-nose kid—mean sometimes, incredibly generous sometimes? Dirty in your habits, and curiously pure in your mind. Maybe you have a little more energy than most, just energy, but outside of that you're very like all the other snot-nose kids.

Los seres humanos tienen a veces más ponzoña que las serpientes.

The church supper is the grandfather of the country club, just as the Thursday poetry reading in the basement under the vestry sired the little theater.

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.

It was not that her brain was less efficient than theirs, within its limits it was more so; but it was like the keyboard of an adding machine as opposed to that of typewriters.

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

not simply cause-and-effect thinking or group comparison thinking but the complexity of human life.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet!

Man differs more from man than man from beast

How blest was the created state Of man and woman, ere they fell, Compared to our unhappy fate: We need not fear another hell.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

don't worry much about trying to be better than someone else.

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

You're just as good as anyone, but you're no better than anybody.

don't worry about whether you're better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can become. You have control over that; the other you don't.

Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement.

If we are surrounded by flawless individuals, it can make our own mistakes seem magnified. And if a problem appears overlarge, it becomes more intimidating to attempt to overcome it.

As a matter of fact, Ona spent more credits on the window shades alone than you will make in your entire lifetime and that's if you live to be 185." "And that's meant to make me feel better?" I said. "No, that is meant to inform you. I am your computer not your nanny.

Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.