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The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others.
— William Graham Sumner
Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.
— Gregory Neri
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
— Virginia Woolf
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
— Richard Attenborough
Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste: Everyone is potentially harmed by their spread.
— Sam Harris
He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.
— Robin Sloan
Looks like I'm enduring a two-hour car trip with the human equivalent of a splinter - a sexy splinter.
— Lia Riley
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
— Jose Bergamin
Visiting friends just to shoot the shit is the human equivalent of picking ticks off of one another's backs.
— David McRaney
she was the human equivalent of a storm cloud.
— David Sedaris
The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.
— Michael Bamberger
Having me in the dining-room was almost the equivalent of having a Raeburn on the walls; I was classy, I was heavily varnished, and I offended nobody.
— Robertson Davies
a negative charge moving backward in time is mathematically equivalent to a positive charge moving forward in time!
— Lawrence M. Krauss
A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
This would involve disconnection - the computer equivalent of death. Despite
— Arthur C. Clarke
One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.
— Joseph Prince
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
— Calvin Trillin
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
— Murray Rothbard
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
— Michael Pollan
Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
— Gina Greenlee
Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin..
— John Paul Stevens
To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.
— Edith Wharton
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
— Larry Dossey
Every thirty-one hundred years a volume of water equivalent to all the oceans passed through the atmosphere.
— Anthony Doerr
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
— S. Jay Olshansky
I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Rocks are computationally equivalent to humans.
— Stephen Wolfram
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.
— Ivan Illich
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
— Andrew Bogut
Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water.
— William J. Clinton
Thirty minutes of active learning is equivalent to several hours of passive learning.
— Tamara L. Chilver
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.
— Ben Bernanke
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
— Jonah Goldberg
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
— Robert Collier
There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.
— Robert Breault
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
— Ziyi Zhang
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
— Thomas Aquinas
Thomas had gotten his learner's permit a week ago - the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine.
— Harlan Coben
Bright, flowery plants ... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault.
— Jim Butcher
It's like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead.
— Matthew Norman
Her kind was supposed to be irresistibly alluring to humans. She was the humanoid equivalent of a Venus flytrap.
— Sarah Beth Durst
TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.
— Napoleon Hill
Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman ...
— Victor Hugo
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
— Hugh Jackman
For Harley, reading was the equivalent of chocolate, sleep, and morphine all rolled into one. Like all cats, she was quite the hedonist.
— Suzanne Wright
CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.
— Felicia Day
I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
— Vanessa Mae
The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
— John Edwards
We hated the cruise. Our cabin was deep in the bowels of the ship, the nautical equivalent of nosebleed seats.
— Janet Ambrosi Wertman
Objectification is the female equivalent of emasculation.
— Alison A. Armstrong
Everyone loves the single girl. She is the adorable needy human equivalent of a stray pet others want to domesticate.
— Betsy Israel
I swear whatever pheromones Quinn Sullivan secreted were the equivalent of Janie-cat-nip.
— Penny Reid
There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit
— Napoleon Hill
Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.
— Chris Jericho
Tim Mason. The human equivalent of C-4.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
— Neil Kinnock
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
— Barbara Delinsky
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
— Napoleon Hill
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
— Frank Herbert
You know what turns dirt into diamonds?""Pressure. Weight. Heat ... "
"The geological equivalent of torture. — Laura Argiri
Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one
— Sunday Adelaja
A box of chocolates is the wrapped equivalent of a shrug. You may as well not bother.
— Matthew Crow
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
— Mary Kay Blakely
He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham.
— Ron Atkinson
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.
— Rashida Jones
You familiar with prison rules, Ali-gator?Stupid nicknames. They were the equivalent of verbal fungus. You couldn't ever get rid of them. — Gena Showalter
What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.
— Margaret Atwood
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
— R.C. Sproul
Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen.'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal. — Joe Abercrombie
To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.
— Henry David Thoreau
