Equal Quotes

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

On the field, everyone is equal.

For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.