Quotes About Comparison

The world compares me to my neighbor, but God compares me to my former self. Every day God invites me to improve on my former self. It is a constant invitation to transformation.

if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss.

exaggeration is the octopus of the English language

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard

Everyone can sing. Some better than others. I fall into the 'others' category.

jealousy is a sign of a shallow mind and weak character.

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Beside London Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio at Florence seemed but a mere trifle in Guccio's memory, and the Arno a brook compared with the Thames. He said so to his companion. 'All the same we teach them everything,' the latter replied.

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Men were like cars – they were absolutely lovely until they went wrong.

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Courage is essentially competitive and imitative.

Soviet conduct could be deemed less barbaric than that of the Nazis only because it embraced no single enormity to match the Holocaust.

One Russian soldier in four died, against one in twenty British Commonwealth combatants and one in thirty-four American servicemen.

To put the matter bluntly, U.S. soldiers on Bataan and Corregidor showed themselves more stalwart than British imperial forces in Malaya and at Singapore, albeit likewise in a doomed cause. Brigadier

Stalin would ultimately prove the most successful warlord of the conflict, yet no more than Hitler

Amoz Oz, who said something of the same kind, but from a different perspective: 'People like you', he said to me, 'are going to become very disappointed in Israel in the years ahead. You want it to behave like a European society. Instead, it is becoming a Middle Eastern society. I hope that it will not behave worse than other Middle Eastern societies. But you should not delude yourself that it is likely to behave much better.

The ultimate goal of the arriviste's aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others. He merely uses the "thing" as an indifferent occasion for overcoming the oppressive feeling of inferiority which results from his constant comparisons.

The people's good fortune is my misfortune!

Calvinism, in comparison, appears to be more closely related to the hard legalism and the active enterprise of bourgeois-capitalistic entrepreneurs. Finally