Quotes About Comparison

For as long as she could remember, Frances's parents has told her stories about England. But when she got there, the real England wasn't like the stories at all.

I have the personality, the nature, of Napoleon, albeit a feminine translation.

I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.

I didn't have to be perfect-hardly anyone was perfect. Why did I think I had to be perfect all the time?

There were so many things I wasn't that I had difficulty defining myself, especially in relation to Elise, who was so many things.

she had the educated instincts of a European, not an Asiatic,

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must always be either bigger or smaller than they were at some arbitrary point in time to which all things are compared. The panties that are possibly tighter than they were. When? You can't say when. But you are absolutely positive no question that it's true.

Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.

whose brain was no bigger than a medium-sized walnut,

Baby dodos smell just like chickens.

One question I have about this theory (*Darwin) is: What basis was used to determine which species are higher or lower, and which are strong or weak? To decide that the phenomenon of the survival of the fittest is the providence of nature and that people are the highest, most evolved species seems to reflect more the strongman logic of human beings than the true state of nature. No one can say which species is the strongest because all living things depend on one another to survive (...)

questa tendenza a ricordare male il passato uno dei motivi principali per cui ci sembra che oggi le cose vadano peggio.

A candle cannot boast standing next to the sun.

A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.

Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.

Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.

Roses have no reason to envy daisies.

Roses have thorns but are worth more than daises.

To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.