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.
John Keegan

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

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
Boris Kodjoe

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.
Graham Nelson

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
Edward Thorndike

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
Helen Hayes

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.
Charlie Hunnam

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.
Niki Lauda

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
Sidney Poitier

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.
Nick Cannon

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.
Johannes P. Muller

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.
Angela Merkel

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson

War is being declared to-morrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
Malcolm Lowry

We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in.
Stephen Bennett

We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.
Kool Moe Dee

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.
Jonathan Frakes