Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.
Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
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.
No sé dónde nos han enseñado que socorrer al desvalido equivale a apartarlo de las garras de la muerte a cualquier precio.
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.
To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
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.
The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.
