Quotes About Equivalent

unexpected increases in inflation are the de facto equivalent of outright default, for inflation allows all debtors (including the government) to repay their debts in currency that has much less purchasing power than it did when the loans were made.

Reagan's "moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers" was now ready to saturate the United States with cocaine.

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 harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath

Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage.

date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.

The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".

Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent.

Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent. That was something that frightened her: the possibility that she was losing her mind. She was certainly losing her clarity of thought, and that came pretty close.

You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

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.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

El típico vn, vestidito negro: el equivalente indumentario de las armas nucleares.

In Kerr's mind, the toll of 373 deaths due to supposed US government laxity was the moral equivalent of 70 million deaths at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.

Back then I used to say that I despised the new coinage "quality time," that it was yuppie parents' smiley-face equivalent to lawyers' Ã¢â'¬Å"billable hours.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I'm trying to do in film.

I had great teaching. Working with Nike and at CAA, that's the equivalent of going to Michigan Law School and to MIT.

When specialization and exchange become generalized, there is a need for something called a universal equivalent.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a Book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.