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#2. Yeah, I can see why beautiful cars are compared to beautiful women ... they usually belong to someone else.
Mike Patterson
#3. To your simple existence, do not boast;
merely to breathe or move or think is not to live.
The shore of the sea is but a ghost,
compared to the depth its wholeness gives.
You exist in the miry foam;
make the ocean depths your home.
Craig Froman
#4. The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working ... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
Jamie Wyeth
#5. I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.
Steve Scalise
#6. Maybe being alone in the sea, with its unexplored depths, its clawing-finger waves, really is safer compared to the land, where there are people and malice and death.
Beth Revis
#7. O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.
Ordericus Vitalis
#8. The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.
Andy Graham
#9. It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.
Ann Coulter
#10. Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#11. I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.
Justin Timberlake
#12. I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#13. I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It's a compliment for me to be compared to him.
Paolo Maldini
#14. The best of our best, without Jesus, looks like a pile of crap compared to Him.
Matt Chandler
#15. Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.
Sarada Devi
#16. Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.
Milan Kundera
#17. Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.
Paul Ramadge
#18. But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.
M. Russell Ballard
#19. Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?
Russell Gold
#20. Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.
Douglas Lenat
#21. The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#22. There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.
Jimmy Page
#23. We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!
Charles Darwin
#24. Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
Chanakya
#25. The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#26. I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.
David Morse
#27. The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.
Cornel West
#28. I'm the soft light compared to their ultraviolet.
Calla Devlin
#29. The dynamic range of the digital camera is pretty crappy compared to film, but now film is not great because the labs have closed. It's going to hurt a lot of the movies that we did in this gap because I think they are going to look very old very soon.
Emmanuel Lubezki
#30. At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
John Strachan
#31. Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.
Joey McIntyre
#32. Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.
Roger Ebert
#33. Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.
Gabrielle Giffords
#34. Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.
Sidney Poitier
#35. A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
Richard De Bury
#36. Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it's loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.
Drexel Deal
#37. It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.
Ziggy Marley
#38. A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
Mike Krzyzewski
#39. You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!
Stephen Richards
#40. What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
Natasha Richardson
#41. I certainly wouldn't want to be the man who was compared to John Ritter through my eyes.
Amy Yasbeck
#42. John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
Nick Faldo
#43. The distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion
Frederick Franck
#44. Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#45. The moon features frequently as a simile for beauty (and indeed Budur's name means 'moons'). Beautiful women are conventionally compared to gazelles. It was more common to evoke beauty through metaphor and simile than by close physical description.
Malcolm C. Lyons
#46. I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.
Ian McEwan
#47. The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.
Ice Cube
#48. I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
Poe Ballantine
#49. being a doctor was a snap compared to being a single parent.
Kristin Hannah
#50. I think I've become more understanding of people around me compared to before. I try to understand other people's tendencies and relationships. I've been able to laugh off a lot of things between myself and others, but it's still difficult trying to look at things from their perspectives.
Jessica Jung
#51. Despite the mosque's perfection as a whole, it contained many deliberate mistakes in the symmetry of the tile work in order to symbolize the craftsman's humility and his insignificance when compared to Allah.
Jamie Maslin
#52. You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
Christine Lagarde
#53. Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
Tom Wolfe
#54. Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.
Kobo Abe
#55. The cabin on the lake is nothing compared to my mansion in eternity!
Todd Stocker
#56. I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
Colm Toibin
#57. Genghis Khan considered his daughters superior leaders compared to his sons, and he awarded them kingdoms that they defended tooth and nail (oftentimes against their male siblings).
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
#58. I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
Brad Meltzer
#59. But what they had achieved apart on the dance floors of the world was nothing compared to what they achieved together.
Siri Mitchell
#60. What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
Robert D. Kaplan
#61. Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have enormously greater opportunities to have a good time, yet there is no indication that we actually enjoy life more than our ancestors did. Opportunities alone, however, are not enough. We also need the skills to make use of them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#62. I really do like the independent way of working. You don't get much studio intrusion compared to when you're working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.
Steven Bauer
#63. The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words. So the atoms are combined in equal variety to form what are called molecules.
William Henry Bragg
#64. You won't kill me, you stupid worthless bitch. But you best believe that we will kill you. We'll make your friend's death look as cute as puppies and kittens compared to yours. It's just too bad that you won't be able to witness it. Bummer." - Patrick Calveri
Tina Nelson
#65. Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
Michael Phelps
#66. William glanced at the captain. The way she sat suggested she was tense - and that she disliked the princess on sight. William wasn't sure why, but he knew that women tended to pick up on subtle points men missed. Or maybe she just felt dowdy when compared to the princess.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#67. The inherent dangers of youth will never change. Volatile hearts and ill-advised flirtations can hardly be compared to the hatred and slaughter of war.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#69. These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command
positi on and timing
all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
David Hurn
#70. Tell me, where do I stand compared to Neil and the ankle biter over there? He's kind of hot, in a Howard the Duck kind of way
H.M. Ward
#71. 'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'
Joe Carnahan
#72. I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I'm pretty chill compared to back then. When I'm on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.
Brittany Howard
#73. Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
M.J. Rose
#74. If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#75. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
Terrell Owens
#76. The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.
Dillon Burroughs
#77. Nobody ever looks in the mirror and says, "Let's face it, I'm smarter than Gauss." And yet, in the last hundred years, the joined effort of all these dummies-compared-to-Gauss has produced the greatest flowering of mathematical knowledge the world has ever seen.
Jordan Ellenberg
#78. I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
Raekwon
#79. The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people will see it. If I release a movie, five to ten million people will see it.
Mike Birbiglia
#80. Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
J.R. Moehringer
#81. I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.
Tom Ford
#82. I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.
Troy Polamalu
#83. What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson
#84. I've done all kinds of cool things as an actor - I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody's daddy.
Chris Pratt
#85. A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Max Lucado
#86. The mind is compared to a wild horse,and the practice of ethics is compared to the reins by which this wild horse is tamed.
Dalai Lama XIV
#87. Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.
Sarah Vowell
#88. Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
Bjork
#89. I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby.
Eva Mendes
#90. Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
Peter Drucker
#91. Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.
John Landis
#92. It is the wall of separation between church and state ... that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as compared to those European countries in which church and state have been united, resulting in opposition to the church by those who disapprove of the government.
Alan Dershowitz
#93. I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.
AnnaLynne McCord
#94. I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.
David Cronenberg
#95. Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.
Beth Moore
#96. They consider themselves masters at cheating. But then, I think this will be the first time that they sit at a table with mortal humans facing them. Cheating? When it comes to that, the Elder Gods are as children compared to humans. Since the time of my return, this much at least I have learned.
Steven Erikson
#97. I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy.
Rob Thurman
#98. I've been compared to Jude Law my whole career.
JJ Feild
#99. Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist.
David Finckel
#100. Most blogs have very low readership - perhaps only the blogger's mother or best friend reads them - but even writing for one person, compared to writing for nobody, seems to be enough to compel millions of people to blog.
Dan Ariely
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