International comparisons show that implementing better farming techniques is crucial to reducing the incidence of hunger on the continent. (Quote by - Frans Cronje)

Looking ahead, the fourth quarter will also be affected by comparisons to the almost $50 million of politically- related ad demand from last year's fall elections and a continuing soft advertising outlook in the U.K.. (Quote by - Craig Dubow)

Some of the criteria that is used is the comparisons are potential rate of your freshmen and sophomore has, graduation rates, size of the classes, what percentage of your classes are 20 students or fewer, what percentages are over 40, the faculty student ratio, and ours is a fairly low one in comparison to many other universities, alumni giving rates, the resources that we have for faculty, the number of full- time faculty. (Quote by - Barbara Dixon)

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)

One positive is that S&P earnings so far have looked better than the year- earlier period. Granted, comparisons are a lot easier as companies take less write- offs, but it's still something that's encouraging. (Quote by - Brett Gallagher)

Once you get it going, there's no comparison. It's a sweet, sweet fuel. (Quote by - Bob Turner)

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. (Quote by - Elizabeth Fishel)

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time. (Quote by - Todd Mark)

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times - - the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie - - seem attractive by comparison. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)

Many comparisons have been made with the markets of the 1950s and 1960s. If you go back in history you climb a wall of worry. The price action we are seeing today is actually normal action in a bull market. (Quote by - Ralph Acampora)

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)

At some point, you just have to say you'll stop worrying about the comparisons and start over next year. (Quote by - Bruce Snyder)

You are coming off a banner year and comparisons are more difficult. There's no doubt about that, . . But there appears to be a consensus of 3 percent to 4 percent GDP growth in 2005 and with that backdrop, leisure and recreation companies should have a good year. (Quote by - George Smith)

There's no comparison. At the largest landfill in the state, they process a million tons (of garbage) a year. (Quote by - Chuck Brown)

The nice thing about the Internet is that most people can access it right from their home and do some comparison shopping online. (Quote by - Dallas Martin)

There's no comparison. In spring training it was more tightness. This is more pain in the back. (Quote by - Bartolo Colon)

Everything pales in comparison to deer. (Quote by - Dave Swanson)

There's no way to know based on that release how it stacks up against anything, which is I'm sure why they put it out the way they did and refuse to break out any numbers for DVD versus videogame, or U.S. Sales versus selected international territories, . . That leaves no possible way to create an apples- to- apples comparison. (Quote by - Scott Hettrick)

We're concerned that McDonald's may not be able to sustain these levels of comparable sales gains over the next 8 to 9 months. We expect sales growth going forward to be in the mid single- digits of between 4 to 6 percent as the company enters a period of tougher comparisons from a year ago. (Quote by - Dean Haskell)

The energy level, the quickness, the speed, the recognition; Vilma is an impressive player. I think there are some favorable and justified comparisons. (Quote by - Brian Billick)

It's going to be a special place, and it's going to make every other sports retailer in the Twin Cities seem small by comparison. (Quote by - Richard Grones)

At times it is hard to ignore the comparisons between Baghdad (where I was less than a month ago and have spent more of the last two years) and New Orleans: The anarchy, the looting, some of it purely for survival, some of it purely opportunistic. We watched a flatbed truck drive by, a man on the back with an M- 16 looking up on the roofs for snipers, as is common in Iraq. Private security contractors were stationed outside the Royal St. Charles Hotel; when asked if things were getting pretty wild around the area, one of them replied, Nope. It's pretty Green Zone here.'. (Quote by - David Enders)

It is always dangerous to make comparisons, but having lived through February 1986, this current pattern is beginning to have that look to it. (Quote by - Dave Reynolds)

I wasn't trying to go make a point at all, . . I was trying to do what I can do. He played well. He played really well. I'm not trying to draw any comparisons. (Quote by - Zach Parise)