#equivalent

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#been #chapel #copy #equivalent #jackson

America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in. ↗

— Todd Akin

#because #business #cancer #equivalent #federal

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#equivalent #friendship #love #strategy #without

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

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

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

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