Equal Quotes

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.

No one enjoys being equal.

As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

I have an equal opportunity womb!

Everyone is equal - a strange Swedish mentality.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

Every high has an equal, measurable low.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.