Equals Quotations

At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.

I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.

I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

China doesn't have a single leader. It has - a first among equals is the president, and his name will probably be Xi Jinping, almost certainly.

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.

The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim.

Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

My father, if he thought in his mind that two plus two equals five, then he will argue with you for about five hours until he got mad and just sent me to bed. It's his house, he's right.

My greatest desire is to see all Australians treat each other as equals as we travel together towards the new century.

Oh yeah, it's a lot of fun. Mark Rein equals target practice!

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

One and one definitely does not equal two. It equals two-and-a-half, two-and-three-quarters.

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vital; thy spirits shall not abandon thy body!

If A equals B and B equals C, then you can do the math.

If a person sleeps less than four hours a night, there is a 73 percent risk of obesity, and five hours a night equals a 50 percent risk. Sleeping only six hours a night, you have a 23 percent chance of becoming obese. Listen to your body when you are tired.

I get walk-in business from the post office, (which) equals about 15 percent to 20 percent of my business.

Basically, this is a plus for both firms, but additional restructuring is necessary to make this work. A simple one plus one equals two scenario will not by itself bear fruit.

He understands that if I'm not happy - which was not an understanding in my first marriage - if I'm not happy as an actor the marriage isn't going to work. And conversely, if he is not politically fulfilled - Maybe that's the second time around - I don't know. We're absolute equals in this. And it feeds the passion.

My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

That equals his best of the year. He is a junior.

Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and you have all you truly need.

I think it's too simple to say that violence equals energy; people have said that along the way. Violence is debilitating as much as anything else.

Right turn equals happy. I think the diversity will help bring in new fans and other drivers and teams to the IRL. I grew up road racing all over the world and I am really looking forward to getting back to my roots.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Our biggest thing right now is to try to improve in some areas. If that equals out to a win, great.

I think that starts in our scrimmages where everybody is talking trash and challenging each other. During games, once we get a defensive stop it kind of leads to a fast break, and a fast break equals points. Then everybody gets more hyped because they want to get more steals and more dunks.

It has always been the goal of the city to create a first-class facility that equals those across the state. We want to do it. We want to do it right. We want to have something that Orangeburg and the surrounding area can be proud of.

You'll never find Playboy at the Wal-Mart because of the brand and name. Playboy equals sex.

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

We are meant to express how we feel about life. It's like breathing: Inhale the experiences of life, exhale how you feel about them. We are at our best when we can turn our impressions into expressions. The equation goes like this: Impression without expression equals depression.

When the president tries to make us believe that open borders equals national security he loses all credibility.

We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.

There is no peace among equals because equality doesn't exist in this universe. Either one prevails and the other follows, or both negotiate their differences and create a greater partnership.

We start as equals on Sunday. Inter have many qualities, like us after all. You can't say who is the strongest, it depends on the day..on how we've slept at night.

Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.

Between the town and the resort, it really is a one-plus-one equals five relationship. I think that's why the relationship has to be symbiotic, and focused on the whole.

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'

Translation: Volume equals a seven-game series. ''Get us to Game 7 and we'll be in the ballpark. The last two Octobers, Fox has been the No. 1 network and we did it on the back of baseball.

While the MCV return equals the second-best ever monthly result for this segment achieved in May 2005, it was only 40 units below the outright record of 1 216 units set in June, and sustains the tremendous growth spurt being exhibited by this vehicle classification. In their own right, the HCV and EHCV segment results both set new records for these categories since NAAMSA redefined its truck market segmentation parameters at the beginning of 2004.

I see things in a pretty simple way. More 'empty' calories, less exercise equals excess calories, equals fat, whether it's actual sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup,

The sophistication of this tunnel equals the sophistication of the criminal organization.

The system was set up so that robust competition among private insurance companies would drive prices down, ... More competition equals lower prices. It is simple economics.

The semiconductor industry has few equals when it comes to resource conservation and minimizing its environmental impact. Through these and other activities, ISMI will continue to work in that tradition.

The stereotype is that young equals liberal and therefore soft on crime. The stereotype is also black equals liberal and soft on crime. The stereotype is further unmarried parent equals liberal. Therefore, young black waitress with child is a defense juror, supposedly.

When you give a team like Crowley six runs, and you only have four hits, that equals a loss.

The scale is 1 inch equals 2,000 feet, or about 21/2 inches per mile. The maps don't show underwater depth contours because they change so much due to the heavy current.

With decades of experience in network management, Sean, Gary and Jim are intimately familiar with the old way of thinking: a secure network equals a secure environment. That approach simply won't get the job done in a world where 70 percent of the vulnerabilities reside in the applications running across those networks. These executives work extremely well together and provide an outstanding balance of industry knowledge, business and sales expertise. They are helping Security Innovation break new ground in the market, extend our offerings more broadly and fuel our steady upward momentum.

The receivers are running deep routes, and you've got a hand on their hip, and with the pressure (up front), the quarterback just lofts it up, and it's pretty much a one-on-one play, ... Our front seven is creating a lot of opportunities for us. More pressure equals turnovers.

We like to think of ourselves as equals out there. Our philosophy is simple ? be patient on the ice and have fun.

Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.

That game typifies our year. Flaherty is an NHL goalie and we're not the only team he's shut down. They took advantage of the few mistakes we made. Five mistakes equals five goals.

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions

They said the odds of First Union doing a merger of equals in the next 24 months is 10 percent or less, ... and in the third year it is probably about 33 percent. They suggested there are only a limited number of players out there that would fit with them and many of them are currently engaged in digesting their own acquisitions.

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

Even die-hard fans of the market acknowledge that TB care should be free. Why? Because it's an airborne disease and treatment equals prevention.

There's no math equation that equals ratings or demographics or even (takes into consideration) 'The Man Show.' What the (bleep) is 'The Man Show' audience? You either go up there and connect, or you go up there and you don't connect,

We believe that a $1,000 tax reduction equals about $10,000 more on the overall value of your home, ... If you were in the buyer's market and you were considering two similar homes on the same block, and one has taxes of $10,000 and the other $9,000, wouldn't you pay $5,000 or even $10,000 more for that home? Most people would, since they usually plan to stay there for at least 10 years.

You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement (C).A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall all the cars and no one gets hurt.If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.

This is not a transaction of equals -- this is tough, dominant Dow. They're in charge.

Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality

I'm looking forward to being able to come to Miami and help my friend and Chicago co-star Robin Givens raise money for the Greater Miami Tennis Foundation. I can't guarantee that my tennis talent equals up to my savvy dancing, but I'm certainly going to try and put my best foot forward on the tennis court and enjoying myself at Robin's dinner.

In this case, 60 equals 15, and 15 equals five.

If you're going to buy an Xbox 360 bundle, you're going to spend $500, and that equals 10 video games.

If you have money but no issues, that equals mush. No message, no victory.

If you are looking at attending college, rigor equals success,

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

All people see on TV is 95 percent of the hurricane coverage is on New Orleans. The affected area equals the size of Great Britain. It's 90,000 square miles.

It's pretty cool, but it's only one win. It's not like 400 yards equals four wins. I wish it did because we'd be 8-2 now.

The merger of equals will catapult DaimlerChrysler into the industry's top three in market capitalization,

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

The mindset to make money equals instant failure. Believing that you have the right to earn income so that you can bless others will provide financial freedom for yourself and your family.

It's huge news for the Mac community. It's a real bombshell. Hell has frozen over, black is white, two plus two equals five, the whole fabric of the universe has been ripped open.

Clearly, it's a situation of one plus one equals five. It's a great town and a great mountain. Put the two together, each one is substantially more because of the other.

High-definition plus today's DVD equals good enough, ... It has been and continues to be so ugly that consumers are going to stay away.

Higher interest equals higher risks - the Chinese will need time to get used to the concept.

His approach is to not to try and dominate but to participate as one of equals and listen, and that's what he did. At critical times he made his views obviously clear.

Buying power, we know, is one key signal of the growth and size of the vital GLBT consumer market. In our report, we cite buying power as another term for 'disposable personal income,' which is the total after-tax income available to an individual to spend on personal consumption, personal interest payments or savings. According to economists, it roughly equals 86% of income.

Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth,

Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

They are unselfish and they like each other, which equals excellent team chemistry.

A common misconception among homeowners when it comes to home remodeling and renovation is that cost equals value. However, not every renovation or remodeling effort will pay off at closing.

Access equals power in Washington, and few people have greater access than a former member of Congress. We believe the public has the right to know how frequently their elected representatives change their allegiances and become lobbyists.

It's always harder to defend. I never thought we'd have the start that we had. Effort equals results, except in this case, because we put a lot of effort into this program over the winter and every week and we're just not seeing the results.

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise.

This merger of equals will catapult DaimlerChrysler into the industry's top three in market capitalization with an equally strong credit position, ... By realizing the synergies, and with our combined strengths we believe that we are ideally situated for growth in the marketplace as we go forward.

There was just one woman. So she was just given a hard time, teased and not shown the respect of equals that she should have had.