Top 911 Equivalent Quotes & Sayings

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Blessings are the spiritual equivalent of breathing in, and prayer is the spiritual equivalent of breathing out.

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

The wrestling equivalent to Wayne Gretzky? That's Shawn Michaels.

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

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

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech.

So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

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 a President.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

Those who commit these types of scandals are guility of the spiritual equivalent of murder, but I, here among you to prevent something far worst for you. While those who give scandal are guilty of the spiritual equivalent of murder, those who take scandal- who allow scandals to destroy faith- are guilty of spiritual suicide.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

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 to vanquishing all foes. Where would I possibly find enough leather With which to cover the surface of the earth? But (wearing) leather just on the soles of my shoes Is equivalent to covering the earth with it. Likewise it is not possible for me To restrain the external course of things; But should I restrain this mind of mine What would be the need to restrain all else?

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

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

In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.

The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.

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

The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.

The tried and tested becomes very boring. There's no way that the British equivalent of a Bryan Cranston would get the lead in a British equivalent of 'Breaking Bad.'

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.

It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of Holocaust deniers it's more recent history, but in both cases the evidence - in favour of the Holocaust and evolution - is simply overwhelming. That doesn't mean they are morally or politically equivalent. But they are equivalent in denying history.

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

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 a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.