(102 quotes found)
“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
Albert Einstein
“Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.”
Emmet Fox
“A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.”
Henry David Thoreau
“He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?”
Stephen King
“I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.”
Cynthia Ozick
“For many years the National Pretend Speed Limit was fifty-five miles per hour (metric equivalent: 378 kilograms per hectare.)”
Dave Barry
“Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.”
Clare Short
“The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities”
Cesare Lombroso
“The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica”
Bill Beaumont
