Equivalent Quotes

479 quotes by 417 authors

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… — Russell Banks
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… — Jean Baudrillard
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. — Henry Ward Beecher
Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not… — Lewis Black
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. — Anita Brookner
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. — Steve Buscemi
When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Benjamin Carson
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. — Thomas Aquinas
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what… — W. Clement Stone
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the… — Henry Ford
You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State… — Albert J. Nock
I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace… — Cordell Hull
The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and… — Ian Wooldridge
Blessings are the spiritual equivalent of breathing in, and prayer is the spiritual equivalent of breathing out. — Thom Hartmann
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what… — Joan Miro
Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those things that are… — Esther Hicks
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,… — Daniel Ellsberg
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to… — Sigmund Freud

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