Famous Quotes & Sayings

While the magnitude is troublesome, the inability to compute and compare issue information is alarming.

The president signed into law a $100 million increase for the corps for the current fiscal year compared to the previous year's level.

Bob Riley

The president of the United States called in and he said 'Bob, with 3,000 votes that's a landslide compared to some races,'

Expenses grew just 4 percent this quarter compared with 17 percent in the first half.

But the neutral zone will be shrunk by a few feet so I think it'll have a minimal impact compared to some of the other changes.

Michael Nyqvist

If I compared myself to my kids, they know everything, and they're like small little hackers. I feel also that my identity can be stolen; I'm very paranoid about it compared to other people in the younger generation.

Chuck Palahniuk

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

The good news is that concert consumer spending is miniscule compared to total entertainment spending, so there's a lot of room to grow.

There are a lot of value investors who have done tremendous style drift, ... The funds have drifted so dramatically that it's hard to compare us to them.

When you look at national figures you get one picture, and you get another when you look at geographic variation. The places in the country where we have very high rates of deaths from heart disease are places that have historically experienced economic underdevelopment. ... There have been a lack of opportunities for people to experience healthy living compared to other areas.

The previous month was huge, so of course we were expecting a weaker number. The important thing is how it compares with the month's trade deficit.

Ani Difranco

What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?

Donna Shalala

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

While hedging and surcharges will partially offset this, we still face a 600 million dollar shortfall compared with last year,

Isabelle Huppert

With theatre, I like to compare it to sculpture. It is a shape that you shape. I have this funny image in my head. You can extend it, reduce it.

When we play other teams that have year-round facilities, you can see the level that they are at compared to ours. If we had a year-round program and kids could skate during the summer, it would really grow and our competitive abilities would be higher.

Jim Lea

When we look at the the reliability and the cost of nuclear energy and compare it with what's happening with fossil fuels, we don't have too many options.

We only gave up five in overtime, where compared to the last overtime we just played we gave up 17. And Jason Van Eck had some big blocks.

We don't play enough league games, so every loss in league is magnified. You can go from third to 10th with one loss. It's pretty dramatic compared to other leagues.

We compared North Korea's thoughts with ours, ... There are similar points as well as different points.

We compare between Paddy's and here and it is exactly the same.

Charlie Jones

We have been making steady progress for the last couple years on improving our depth, ... We now have 60 players in our program, compared to only 35 two years ago.

We really don?t have anything to compare it to. Victims are protected by federal law from having to pay fraudulent charges, so the loss is primarily of time.

Ken Venturi

You can't be compared to a Hogan or a Nicklaus until you do it. But... after having dinner with Tiger, he's the most mature 18-year-old golfer I've known.

We've had various tests obviously during the winter and things have in general improved compared to what was our position and situation last year.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

Wow, what a tremendous performance, particularly compared with the previous year,

There is a lot of talk about where we are compared to where Auburn was last year, but we think everything is right in front of us,

LeBron James

The opposing teams don't know I'm a football player first. Nothing compares to those football hits.

There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.

Mike Lupica

There is nothing that has happened in the Ryder Cup lately to compare with the finish we got from Woods and Els.

We're not a big team compared to other teams in the NHL, but we are a quick team and I think we can handle our own in the physical areas, in front of the net and in the corners, ... I don't see us being disadvantaged in size.

We keep doing stretch records each year, but for our size community, we'd probably be compared to communities with populations of three to four hundred thousand.