Equivalent Quotes

479 quotes by 417 authors

Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in… — Mark Steyn
Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. — Bob Garfield
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. — Phil Ramone
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. — Emile M. Cioran
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war… — William James
Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have… — Rajneesh
To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the… — Emile M. Cioran
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts. — Jacques Barzun
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
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… — Marvin Olasky
On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland… — Jonathan Kozol
For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes. — Joaquin Phoenix
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word… — Maurice Saatchi
Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent… — Shantideva
There can be no literary equivalent to truth. — Laura Riding
Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects,… — Edward Hirsch

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