Quotes About Comparison

Life becomes so unfair when you don't get what others do. But don't worry, God has decided something better for you.

Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize.

Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.

When we start rating each other's lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

Riding horseback along a country lane I saw wild roses in bloom, against an old stone wall. The expensive, improved varieties in my garden have lost something. Sophistication always does.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

Why a wise man think that he is more smarter than a Fool!

The Mirrow will always win from the Shadow.

We will never be able to whistle as the birds, but in return they will never be able to talk same Like us. So be never unsatisfied but positive For the things to come or going happen. Wij zullen nooit zo kunnen fluiten als de vogels, maar daar tegenover staat dat zij nooit zo zullen kunnen praten als ons. Dus ben nooit ontevreden maar positief voor wat er gaat komen of gebeuren.

Me, either, pal. I'd rather reach in a cow's rear end any day than have to deal with a horse's behind." "Harry Nelson is being transferred to Birmingham," Father Tim said mildly, having saved this pièce de résistance for the right moment.

No one beneath you can offend you. No one your equal would.

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don't have the slightest interest in her themselves.

Schubert had been one of the first composers to groan, "Who can do anything after Beethoven?

No matter what happens to someone, at that exact moment, something that could be construed as worse is happening to someone else. That doesn't lessen our own heartache. It doesn't diminish the fact that right then, you're dealing with one of the worst things that's ever happened to you.

Now she sorta resembled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

It was worth many hardships to see forty German professors try to mount forty recalcitrant mules. My own horseman¬ ship, as already hinted, is nothing to " write home about ", but compared to those German professors I am a centaur.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

The astounding thing about Paula is that she looks like Tess of the D´Urbervilles, and she sounds like Tess of the D´Urbervilles, and she thinks like Tess of the D´Urbervilles and yet she is so different from Tess of the D´Urbervilles. I expect she comes from a different part of Dorset.