#compared

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

#attitude #compared #did #i #killing

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans. ↗

— Richard Burr

#faced #inconveniences #minor #new #new orleans

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. ↗

— John Tyler

#apt #aptly #compared #coquette #elude

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#compared #easy #industry #music #music industry

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#cut #good #minuscule #our #salaries

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#feel #fortunate #i #i feel #icon

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#compared #could #friendly #men #pleasure

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#because #between #brain #brains #certainly

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#dinner #gesture #governor #i #iraq