#equivalent

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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.


Mary Wortley Montagu


#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.


Iris Murdoch


#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.


Dee Dee Myers


#bottom #bottom line #business #easily #equivalent

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.


David Oyelowo


#cheek #company #david #doing #done

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.


David Oyelowo


#crafts #daniel #did #equivalent #foot

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.


Joaquin Phoenix


#buildings #equivalent #guess #i #jumps

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.


Albert Pike


#equivalent #man #miniature #world

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.


Michael Pollan


#congressional #equivalent #journalism #journals #laureates

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.


Laura Riding


#literary #truth

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.


Molly Ringwald


#back #comfort #comfort food #equivalent #feel