"And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being." »Lord Byron
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"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death." »Ayn Rand
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"Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit." »Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.
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"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience." »Bill Watterson
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"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit." »Napolean Hill
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"Tears at times have all the weight of speech." »Ovid
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"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight." »Horace
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"Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight." »Ingrid Weir
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"Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host." »Steve G. Steinberg
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"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen." »Alice Walker
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"Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath." »Joe Moore
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"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible." »Nancy Drew
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"Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way." »Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
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"These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there." »Unknown
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"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight." »Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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"I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight." »Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
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"All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight." »Butler
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"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain." »William Shakespeare
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"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain." »William Shakespeare
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"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent." »Vine Deloria
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"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." »John Updike
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"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." »Sophocles
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"One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love." »Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love." »Sophocles
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"In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him." »Martin Terman
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"Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile." »Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
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"Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster." »Hesiod
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"Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster." »Hesiod
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