Quotes About Comparison

Pride separates excellence from mediocrity

For the record, the average penis is about 4 inches long when flaccid, 5.7 inches when erect. That's a bit bigger than the gorilla's 3-inch erection, but then there's the blue whale, the world's largest mammal, who has, yes, a 10-foot pole.)

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independance, but the government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.

Even now someone might be envying another for something they don't see in themselves. They might be longing for a quality they already posses.

People around the world are like onigiri. Everyone has an umeboshi with a different shape and color and flavor. But because its stuck on their back they might not be able to see their umeboshi. Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's back. -Tohru Honda

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

Reality always seemed pale in comparison with the stark beauty of fantasy.

It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

It's very confusing choosing between different systems. So I'd like to begin by looking at some of the factors you should consider to help you make the right choice.

try to soften the differentiator. You might ask, "How do you measure machine speed? Do you mean speed for continuous run, or speed for a one-off job? Some machines are very fast under continuous run conditions, but they perform much more slowly if you have one-off production needs.

Did you ever see Pearl's family album? There are no pictures of me as a boy. I skipped right over it. Thousands of pictures of you on bicycles, on ponies, in barber chairs...one picture of me in a 1938 Buick. I looked like Herbert Hoover.

Continued remarks about John and Lisa being like Clarence and Alabama in True Romance or Mickey and Mallory in Natural Born Killers had lifted the atmosphere somewhat.

The past is always judged by the present.

Vanity often roots itself in insecurity

One cannot successfully face an enemy while one is questioning one's own worth, and presuming the enemy is worth more.

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que todo o Machado de Assis! ritinha

Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners.

The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. (…) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.

The basis of the Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. Ruth Swain in "History of the Rain