#equivalent

My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#crazy #equivalent #fear #go #home

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D. ↗

— Iris Chang

#doctorate #equivalent #honorary #i #maybe

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ↗

— Robert Collier

#adversity #defeat #equivalent #every #how

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

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #concession #conciliation #deemed #equivalent

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#equivalent #observation #thinking

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all. ↗

— Lee Loevinger

#may #much #none #too #too much

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy. ↗

— Theresa May

#bureaucracy #business #busting #could #equivalent

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#dial #dirty #equivalents #i #ken

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