#compared

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#characteristics #comes #company #compared #competitive

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to. ↗

— Liam Payne

#amazing #band #bit #boy #compared

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

— Sidney Poitier

#compliment #deserved #enormous #i #jackie

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#consider #done #man #might #mortifying

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

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

#begin #communal #compared #congress #covert

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

#altogether #books #care #compared #horses

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#am #ankle #bad #been #career

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#appearance #because #compared #famous #gauge