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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
Hugh Jackman

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.
Timothy McVeigh

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Jalal Talabani

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
Mary Kay Blakely

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
Napolean Hill

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
Russell Banks

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
Warren Farrell

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

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
Jonah Goldberg