Equal Quotes

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

I feel like in Australia, all the films I've done, we're all equal moving parts in this equation of making the film - an actor is another crew member, essentially.

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

Women are equal because they are not different any more.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.

The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.

All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.

Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

I am almost equal to a shadow.

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.

We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

Women and men are equal human beings.

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

The Koran and Islam is about submission, justice and compassion. All people of the "book" - which means the Torah, Koran and Bible are accorded equal respect under Islam.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.