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 tomorrow 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

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin

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

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.
Joe Grant

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
Bertolt Brecht

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau

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

What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
Natasha Richardson

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
Sydney Harris

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
Sydney J. Harris

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
John McGahern

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.
Arundhati Roy

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.
Donna Shalala

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.
Virginie LeDoyen