Equivalent Quotes

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.