Equivalent Quotes

479 quotes by 417 authors

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card. — Alex Comfort
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven… — Steven Chu
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated… — Anita Roddick
Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would… — Alexander Hamilton
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most… — Alexander Hamilton
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat,… — James Prescott Joule
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation.… — Jimmy Carter
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. — Richard Attenborough
Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind… — William J. Clinton
Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of… — Jeremy Clarkson
A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot… — Luis Marden
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… — Georges Bataille
Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no… — Jonathon Porritt
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like… — Warren G. Bennis
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make… — Ansel Adams
I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if… — Ansel Adams
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artistâ€™s most… — Alfred Stieglitz

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