Relative Comparison Quotes

Coming out of college, I wasn't considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.

My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

There's a great joy in writing about a place you know very well, but there's also a lot of responsibility in trying to be accurate. It's a lot like writing about a relative: you can see both their strengths and their shortcomings, and even as you want to be honest, you want people to see the good that's there as well.

On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

Being first doesn’t mean anything unless there is a second.

My elder brother is a lecturer in a college in Haryana, and my eldest sister was a teacher. I feel they are more educated than I am. I, too, used to dream of becoming a teacher.

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

I guess I am in handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm... average?

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes."

You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donʹt think sheʹs joking.

We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.

If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.

As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

I'm much more shy than most of my family.

The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

Some comedians really are funnier than others. Some people really are more beautiful than others. But these are true only because of the kinds of creatures we happen to be; the perceptual apparatus - apparati - that we happen to have.

The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?

My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.

The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.