Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabrielle Giffords

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

Terry Anderson

Selling public lands can help reduce the drain on the treasury and give us benchmarks to compare private with public management.

She was surprised and thrilled, but I'm a novice compared to her.

She's Shaq. That's who people will compare her to ? the Shaquille O'Neal type.

When I compared the two schools, here the faculty had a much stronger emphasis on environmental education. I'm very glad I picked here.

Dee Dee Myers

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Tracy Morgan

'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that.

What we did see is that when we compared this information on the high explosives, to the Internet, that these are much more polished, ... That they really did work with these formulas, tested these formulas, and developed a procedure of making these high explosives that led to effective high explosives in a safe manner.

Jeff Cook

When you compare this year and last year, it's like a 180-degree turnaround this year. It's completely different. When you go from a dry year to another dry year, it's not as noticeable.

When you compare this team to the last two years, we're mentally stronger. We don't have the physical strength like we did the last two years, but this is the most mentally seasoned team I've been on. We know how to perform in pressure situations. We know how to come back.

When you compare the sentence for Capt. Schweitzer, who was the one who actually destroyed the tape, with the sentence Capt. Ashby received, it's hard to understand the disparity.

When you compare that to the industry multiple of 13.5, these stocks look a little overpriced but they are in good shape.

When you compare our endowment to the benchmarks set by the Council on Postsecondary Education, we are low.

When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, this is a much more low-key papacy to date.

When you compare 1.3 for a levee safety factor with another safety factor that may be used in a different type structure, you don't always have an apples-to-apples comparison.

We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record.

We've never been compared to the Dow. No managers use the Dow as a benchmark.

Julia Mancuso

I got my first Olympic race out of the way with the downhill, so my nerves aren't anything compared to that.

Sergio Garcia

If they compare you with a good player, that means that you have something in your game.

Annika Sorenstam

I think for the future it's going to give us good measurements on the performance of everybody around the world. It's really tough to compare the money list, especially with the purses being different.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.

Daniel Kahneman

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

Homaro Cantu

Wood pellet grilling could potentially have a lower risk of cancer when compared to other forms of grilling, as some people say that it leads to the creation of fewer carcinogens.

Hilary Mantel

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

We only gave up five in overtime, where compared to the last overtime we just played we gave up 17. And Jason Van Eck had some big blocks.

A test may instruct students to compare and contrast something. Well, what does that mean? We have some of the same issues with their homework. We do send home their math worksheets in Spanish and English if the parents request it.

Mike Dalton

As you finish your return, compare it with last year's.

Marcus Giles

It's just good to get out there and get into game mode a little bit. When you do so much working out on the side like I have been, you can only get so much of that. It just doesn't compare to game situations.

Sidney Crosby

It's just frustrating to lose, that's pretty much it. I thought we played better but I don't think our standard should be compared to the last game we played here. We played better than that but it's not good.

Sidney Crosby

It's just frustrating losing, that's pretty much it. Either way, it (stinks) to lose. I thought we played better. We still have better in us. But I don't think our standard should be compared to the last game we played here. If we're trying to play better than that, it's not good. We have to play to our own level.

Roy Williams

It's just a wonderful treat for us (as coaches). You see really good players in one setting and compare how they are to other players as well.

It's just senseless. If people could see him now compared to how he looked before, they'd be shocked.

The neighbors who we hear from have really noticed the difference compared to the concrete freeways that they used to live next to.