164 Equivalent Quotes for You to Enjoy

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor? Matt Bevin

Generation Honor Made Giving First Own Think Others Benefit Our Our Generation Some Be The First Sacred Sacrifices First Generation Without Equivalent Going Modern-Day Fortunes Who Lives

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 equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind. Maurice Saatchi

Future Best Technology Word Mind Will Whatever Location High One Word Having Fact Except Argue Advertising Equity Equivalent Brand Site Modern In Fact Each Street Associate

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak. Meghan Daum

You Conversation Waiting Humble People Speak Wait Otherwise Respond Posting Having Equivalent Brag Which Turn Then Your

I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me - I realised that rock n' rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with. Mick Rock

I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television. Miranda Hart

Saying Writing Comedy Pressure National Homework Television Equivalent Surgery Doing Brain Brain Surgery End Up National Television Going Certain

To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. Molly Ivins

Mistake Assuming Equivalent West Texas Greenwich Connecticut

I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt. Mona Eltahawy

Politics Religion Christian Recognise Muslim Brotherhood Like Fellow Fellow Americans Call Equivalent Line Mix American Egypt Republicans Connects

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. Myriam Miedzian

Life Men Power Destroy Some Some Men Female Becomes Equivalent Create

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely. Nathan Myhrvold

Politics Religion Culture People World Worth Disagree Other Way Ruled Indefinitely Out Determine Area Ideas Ideologies Match Robust Scientific Scientific Method Real Equivalent Method Persist The Real World Real World Conflicting Which Competing

He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony's founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens. Nathaniel Philbrick

I was captain of the soccer and basketball teams in high school, and I was the equivalent of class president. Neil Blumenthal

Class School President High High School Equivalent Soccer Captain Teams Basketball

One episode of 'Game of Thrones' is equivalent to my film 'Centurion' in budget and scope. 'Centurion' has a longer running time, but that's kind of the only difference, and I think people now, if they want drama, they watch TV. Neil Marshall

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

Moral Advertising Equivalent Viewer Who

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function. Oscar Hijuelos

You People Church Country Own Starving Churches About Stuff Catholic Catholic Church Equivalent Hear Lot Get Same Gold While Poor Poor People Mansion Fill Function Filled Nightclubs

Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not change enough diapers, but their government offers paid maternity leave; practically free preschool; and per-baby payments equivalent to eight months of an average salary. Pamela Druckerman

Government Change Free Enough Months Everywhere States Ukrainian More Vary Generous Practically Equivalent Leave Maternity Salary Diapers Than Canada Offers May Childhood Eight Far Average Paid Payments Europe Dads United United States Preschool Early Early Childhood

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others. Paul Di Filippo

History Events Solar Beneath Others Our Solar System Distinct Neighboring Characteristics System Individuals Categorically Period Qualities Surface Still Equivalent Any Human Essentially Just Different Might Human History Certain Planets Special Each

'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once. Paul Feig

You Word Down Once Positively Say Constitutional Potato Fact Lays Simply Bag Like Verbal Real Equivalent Hand Off Cone Rolls Just In Fact Ice Ice Cream Chips Cream Your Skipping Fun Downright Street Tongue

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas. Peter Ackroyd

Work Nature Language Demanding String Unnatural Composer Only Write Piano Writer He Divisions He Or She Also She Force Within Equivalent Historian Histories Expect Against Produce Should English English Language Novelist Novels Why

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting. Peter Blair Henry

Eating Followed Economic Disciplined Equivalent Governments Dieting Crash Engage Binge

Equivalent Quotes

No more equivalent quotes