Compared Quotes

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

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.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.