Equivalent Quotes

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To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the… — Gerhard Richter
Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to… — Wayne Dyer
With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks… — Ronald Reagan
Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead. — Joel Spolsky
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can… — Moss Hart
I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation. — Maureen Lipman
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. — Jalal Talabani
America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no… — Todd Akin
Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the… — Linwood Barclay
My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours.… — Samantha Bee
I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted… — Christiane Amanpour
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you… — Ann Brashares
Is perception equivalent to existence? — Erica Jong
I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. These properties we can only speak of when… — Nikola Tesla
When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes… — Benjamin Mkapa
On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things. — Patti Stanger
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and… — Carrie P Snow
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases… — Bill McKibben
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in… — Vincent Van Gogh

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