Equalled Quotes

#1. Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty.

Geoffrey Wood

#2. I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

Henry George

#3. Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Kevyn Aucoin

#4. It is worth recalling that Britain, over several centuries, waged a war against homosexuality - in the name of religion, social order, decency, etc. - that certainly equalled, and in its scale probably outstripped, anything that happens in Arab countries today.

Brian Whitaker

#5. Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius.

Joseph Devlin

#6. It was difficult for her to preserve that haughty, sullen, and coldly indifferent demeanour that appears to be essential to the mannequin as she sails in with deliberate steps, turns round slowly and, with an air of contempt for the universe equalled only by the camel's, sails out.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. Just as soldiers at their best cannot be equalled in courage, so at their worst nobody can excel them in vandalism.

Dennis Bardens

#8. The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equalled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done.

Charles Dickens

#9. Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

John Milton

#10. Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of art. Yet The Eye and the Ear was done as a consciously designed experiment. Not every avant-garde dealt with experiments and not every experiment equalled avant-garde.

Stefan Themerson

#11. He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

Thomas Hobbes

#12. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

Ayn Rand

#13. I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Dave Grohl

#14. Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.

Stephen Richards

#15. These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

#16. Nothing later equalled that first distant glimpse

Frank Kuppner

#17. There is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

Herman Melville

#18. My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

Jahangir Khan

#19. In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

Conrad Hilton

#20. Most people seemed to think stable equalled happy.

Sophie Hannah

#21. This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

Elizabeth Bowen

#22. If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

Herman Melville

#23. I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week.

Charlotte Ronson

#24. I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

John Key

#25. He needs to be willing to fight for me dad, but he doesn't want to."

"I think he's doing enough fighting for other people, Sum, maybe he needs someone to fight for him

Chantal Fernando

#26. From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#27. Refuse the old means of measurement.
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West

Donika Kelly

#28. The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

Thomas Hood

#29. Paddy was just one of many wanderers on strange, lonely quests, striking out on mysterious missions, most of whom had left no traces.

Nick Hunt

#30. Be as fast as Usain Bolt, the winner is the winner, even if he crawls like a crab, his destiny is unshakable.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#31. Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

Susan Rice

#32. In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

Lester R. Brown