Quotes About Equivalent

Its agents -- not even human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's automation

In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate or too extended to be briefly depicted.

see the question now as the equivalent of a cry of helpless rage, another way of saying How could this have happened when everything was normal.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.

if the path of least resistance does not lead to the nearest tangle tree, it leads to some equivalent disaster. ~Good Magician Humphrey~

Every decision you need to make, every task you need to accomplish, every relationship you need to navigate, every element of daily life you need to traverse, God has already perfectly matched up with an equivalent-to-overflowing supply of His grace. If you don't agree with that, then you either lack a proper appreciation for what you have, or you are doing things that you're not supposed to be participating in right now.

Never give anything away for free—but sometimes it pays to oil the wheels a bit.

You can look for something that's equivalent to Slipknot, and you're going to fail miserably.

We should have equivalent due-process protections for algorithmic decisions as for human decisions.

a lifetime's education was not the equivalent of a minute of Armageddon.

retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general

He later said, "I remember there was some chicken -- some killer fowl -- being locked in some cell somewhere, and I'm talking to this stuntman -- it's crazy, me talking to this Janos Prohaska, [who was] Hungarian or something... [saying], 'Janos, okay that's good, baby, now try this.' And there's this big chicken -- this killer chicken -- or some equivalent. I mean, it was nuts." (26-3)

Active and Passive Perfection are the Taoist equivalent of the sufi terms Majesty and Beauty.

You are not your back but you are your thoughts. If your back hurts it might hurt more by sitting down. If your mind hurts it hurts by thinking. And you feel there is no real, easy equivalent of standing back up. Though often this feeling itself is a lie.

Anti-communism was never accepted as the moral equivalent of anti-fascism, not only by my parents but also by the overwhelming majority of liberal-minded people. The Left was still morally superior. Even when millions were murdered and tens of millions were enslaved and humiliated, the 'root cause' of crimes beyond the human imagination was the perversion of noble socialist ideals.

In the end, respiration and burning are equivalent; the slight delay in the middle is what we know as life.

This police commissary was a great patron of all the arts and industries; but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. "That's the thing," he used to say, "to which it is not easy to find an equivalent; it requires no food, it does not take up much room, it stays in one's pocket, and if it falls, it is not broken.