Equal Quotes - Page 18

• I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.

  Travis Nichols

  Art, Thinking, Mind

  "Scratches in the Temple Wall - An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

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• We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

  Laurence Sterne

  Giving, May, Deities

  Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.146

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• Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Curly Hair, Heaven

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• Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Children, Care, Spheres

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• The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Mean, Men

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• We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Opportunity, Equality, Equal Opportunity

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• No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Heart, Ambition, Men

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

  Anita Hill

  Equal Treatment, Special, Discrimination

  Anita Hill (2011). “Speaking Truth to Power”, p.340, Anchor

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• A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Equality, Men

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• Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

  Francoise Giroud

  Sex, Rights, Mediocre

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Joy

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• We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Perseverance, Struggle

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Opportunity, Erosion

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Powerful, Growing Up

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.56, Penguin

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• Sound, sound the trump of Fame!
  Let Washington's great name
  Ring through the world with loud applause;
  Let every clime to Freedom dear
  Listen with a joyful ear.
  With equal skill, with god-like power,
  He governs in the fearful hour
  Of horrid war, or guides with ease,
  The happier times of honest peace.

  Joseph Hopkinson

  War, Skills, Names

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• I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Community, Doubt

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• Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.

  Koki Hirota

  Development, Territory, Investment

  "British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.

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• The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if you use that one drop, continue to do your duty, and keep digging within, then the spring of Allah's grace and His qualities will flow in abundance.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Prayer, Spring, Love You

  "Sheikh and Disciple". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 1983.

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• It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too. Oppression doesn't exist in Islam. And in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally... This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times.

  Yousef Saanei

  Mean, Reality, Men

  "Iran at the Millenium, by Robin Wright". Excerpt from The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2001), www.pbs.org.

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• It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss March" is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Missing, Age, Use

  "Miss March" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. March 13, 2009.

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• Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Errors, Matter, Exclusion

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• Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.

  Anil Sinha

  Karma, Law, Opposites

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• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mean, Men, Soul

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• Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?

  Lilian Whiting

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Privilege

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• In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

  Mary Ruefle

  Numbers, Exceed

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.1, Wave Books

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