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

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