Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John

What shall I say? Everything that I could say would fade into insignificance compared with what my heart feels, and your hearts feel, at this moment.

What's going on with short-term deficit is minor compared to the problem that is looming. But if they're ignoring the big problem, it's not surprising they're ignoring the near-term issues.

While the magnitude is troublesome, the inability to compute and compare issue information is alarming.

Ken Venturi

You can't be compared to a Hogan or a Nicklaus until you do it. But... after having dinner with Tiger, he's the most mature 18-year-old golfer I've known.

We've had various tests obviously during the winter and things have in general improved compared to what was our position and situation last year.

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.

Wow, what a tremendous performance, particularly compared with the previous year,

There is a lot of talk about where we are compared to where Auburn was last year, but we think everything is right in front of us,

We expect that our revenue growth in 2000 over 1999 will be in the 30 to 35 percent range, up from our previous view of 20 to 21 percent, and that our growth in earnings-per-share from operations in 2000 compared with 1999 will be around 30 percent,

We see a marked difference on days when there is good weather compared with days when the weather is bad.

Rob Enderle

Vista, because it was pretty much conceived during the toughest times for Microsoft with regards to malicious software, has the most protection in it compared to any of their platforms.

At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

Johan Santana

At this point in the season, compared to a couple of years ago, I feel much better.

Scott Aukerman

At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python.

Don't hang your head. Compared to the machine she's got, I think we did damn good.

The results were very upbeat. However, Sony Ericsson may have lost market share compared to the fourth quarter as the overall market was very strong in the first quarter.

Bill Gates

There's really only one that they've done a leadership thing in, which is in search, and search today is very poor compared to what it will be even a year or two years from now -- their search, our search, everybody's search. So there's so much room to do better, to have that work well with the other offerings.

There's some encouragement in the initial sweeps. ... The numbers (of dead) so far are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.

There's no doubt it's (because of) winning. People want to play a team that wins because they want to compare their state to a team that's winning in another state.

John Wooden

It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.

Joe Namath

I can't compare family to athletics.

If compared with other, similar, post-conflict elections, I think that the level of irregularities that we are currently reviewing is extremely reasonable.

Mark Richt

I don't think we compare quite to the accomplishments they had. That was definitely the greatest four-year period in Georgia history. ... We can't match the three SEC championships and the national championship.

Jared Bernstein

However, a far larger gap exists when we compare net worth: minorities' net worth was about 27 percent of whites, about half the size of the income ratio.

Doug Wilson

I compare this to a go-cart race. It's go out there, race and have fun. If you run out of gas, that's no fun.

I compare it to sleeping on a soft mattress,

Bruce Pearl

I love his passion and his energy. He's a one-man press. You talk about the one-two-one-one, he's just the one in front of that press with his length. He compares favorably with a lot of the big men in this league.

Bob Johnson

I never expected it to take off the way it has. Property values have just gone through the roof here compared to what they were.

Ron Johnson

Inherently, department stores have significant advantages compared to all other retailers.

Indiana is a state with very high rates of home ownership compared to the nation. We have more risk households who own rather than rent.

In California, there are about 260,000 people who have flood insurance. That's a small number when you compare it to the about 12.5million homes in the state.

In Chennai we were given a rosier view of the situation compared to what we actually saw.

In Caterpillar's time, replacement workers were seen as dirty pool by the union. That was kid gloves compared to bankruptcy.