Equivalent Quotes

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

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.

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

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

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.

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.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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