Famous Quotes & Sayings

Every time I feel sorry for myself having to do this, I just look at the people who have to go through this every day. They have to live without somebody in their life. Whatever I have to go through is minuscule compared to that.

Everything pales when compared to this. These demonstrations are historic because they surpass in size any of the previous Latino-organized protests, going back to the '50s and '60s.

It's only inexpensive compared to an all-time, record-high price.

Ryan Smyth

It's loud here, but nothing compared to the playoff environment in Edmonton. That's a whole new level. Maybe the sound doesn't' funnel down here (at Joe Louis) but it's huge in Edmonton.

For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.

Murray Walker

It looks as though this year there will be seventeen Grands Prix for the World Championship, compared with the traditional seventeen.

Anything that happened to me was nothing compared to what happened to Nick and the little girl. I'm sorry I interrupted their lives because of the dogs.

As compared to two years ago, we're ahead, ... We've had some things we've had to work through. We had to get everybody on the same page, we had to get them all going in the right direction. And that's what we've done. That creates a good, positive atmosphere.

Sales fell last month compared with December 2004's record-setting pace, prompted by consumers' concerns about rising interest rates.

Chris Fowler

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospitals.

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Sathya Baba

Pure heart is compared to the Himalayas, to the ocean of Milk, to a chariot for the Divine.

Reading (the Fed) has been trivially easy over the past year and a half, compared to what's it's going to be.

Susanna Clarke

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

Prices have doubled in some Florida markets over the past four or five years, so the 10 percent increase we're forecasting for the state this year might seem kind of small compared to recent trends.

Property prices may drop, but I do not think it will drop that fast. The consumers are more financially educated as compared to the last crisis, plus the interest rates are very low now...

Producers are going to be supplying more to the domestic market, where demand is surging because three new power plants are starting up this year. Local consumption may reach 35 percent of total output next year compared with 30 percent this year.

Our doubles is much stronger compared to the fall. We're really looking forward to our match with Albany to see what we have to work on.

Grace Lin

Our data highlight a potentially important gender bias, in that fewer women, despite being eligible, are being referred for cardiac resynchronization therapy compared with a similar group of males. It is another example in recent years of potential under-treatment of women with heart disease in this country. Whether such 'referral bias' is universal, however, deserves further study.

People ask, are you still a growth stock? Compared to these guys, yes we are.

Actually, problems here are very, very minimal compared to other universities.

Dennis Johnson

Some people feel that way. But if you look at it in terms of the five-year period, half an hour is pretty minimal compared to doing your taxes.

Sebastien Loeb

Now I've won the championship for the second time, I think I can say it feels as good as when I did it last time. Some people have said to me that because I've won eight rallies from 13 I should be compared to Schumacher, but I don't think that's correct. I think winning seven championships in rallying is more difficult than in Formula 1, and - at the moment - I have no plans. My priority is just to drive next year and to try and do what I enjoy. Winning rallies.

Doug Bradley

Once we got down (to Florida), the $5 was a minor issue compared to other things.

During that six-year time period, prices for all medicines went up 16 percent, compared to an overall inflation rate for all products of 15 percent.

Compared with the first and second quarters, operating income strongly improved in the third quarter, exceeding the results of the same period last year.

Compared with China's trade volume with other countries it may not be a very big figure, but what matters most is the momentum of rapid growth.

Compared with 61-million (doses) last year, we're not expecting a shortage. We do understand that with the delays in distribution of the flu vaccine, some people will have to wait until November or December to get vaccine.

Compared to where we were two years ago, we're quite prosperous now.

Mark Mulder

Compared to what it was yesterday, it's 100 percent better, but it's still not good enough. I still can't quite look far enough to pick up the catcher.

Compared to those days, it just doesn't have any gravitas as an issue.