Quotes About Comparison

since the beauty of human beings is not like the beauty of things,

We are delighted when a Minister awards us a decoration, even when we have no claim to be thus honoured, but if he follows this up by awarding the same distinction to others who occupy a position similar to our own, we feel inclined to keep him, if we can, from so foolishly cheapening the mark of esteem which he has bestowed upon us.

Chaque fois qu'elle voyait aux autres un avantage si petit fût-il qu'elle n'avait pas, elle se persuadait que c'était non un avantage mais un mal et les plaignait pour ne pas avoir à les envier.

The peculiar tendency which he had always had to look for analogies between living people and the portraits in galleries reasserted itself here,

Every time we are assailed by images of women very different from ourselves, unless these images are eliminated by being forgotten or overlaid by others, we can have no peace of mind until we have converted these strangers into something more like us, the self in that respect being similar in its action and reactions to the physical organism, which is incapable of accepting a foreign body within itself without immediately setting to work to digest and assimilate the intruder.

Nada te asombre por comparación con el recuerdo; asómbrate de todo por la novedad de la ignorancia.

It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god's handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There's not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?

Porque has de saber, Ana, que la intimidad para los hombres es la cama misma, no como para nosotras que es después de la cama, por lo tanto, mucho más larga

As an example, companies would require researchers to compare a new drug with a placebo (sugar pill) instead of with an older drug.

I hated myself for being so weak. I seemed to have no real personality of my own. Gaby was the mirror in which I saw myself.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

Don't let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.

The following are non-sequiturs: 'I am richer, therefore superior to you'; or 'I am a better speaker, therefore a better person, than you'.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Pay no attention to the man who criticizes unless he is doing something better than what he criticizes.

And a short nod of respect is in order, because it's harder to become a Navy SEAL than it is to get into Harvard Law School. Different, but harder.

The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse

Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they had a script to life with all the answers on it? He felt he didn't even know the questions.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.