Synonymous Quotes

#1. To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning. He's an incredible news executive.

Soledad O'Brien

#2. Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [ ... ] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#3. Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.

L'Wren Scott

#4. When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Kenneth Bonert

#5. We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

Paule Marshall

#6. Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.

Tariq Ramadan

#7. Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

John Tillotson

#8. Ortiz is now synonymous with walk-off homers. After all, he hit a total of nine game-ending blasts from 2002-07. And that was just in the regular season. It was his blasts in the 2004 postseason that cemented his legacy in Boston.

Tucker Elliot

#9. I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

Jane Austen

#10. Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

David Korten

#11. By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Desiderius Erasmus

#12. Twenty or twenty-five years ago, contraception and enlightenment were held to be almost synonymous.

George Orwell

#13. It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#14. The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

Michael Eisner

#15. it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. ... forgiveness doesn't have to be synonymous with being a doormat.

Shelly Hickman

#17. You know, smart and educated aren't synonymous.

Pepper Pace

#18. Because you've got balls of steel.'
I hated when people said that, like it assumed strength and being a male were synonymous. There was strength in being a woman. 'Spence, I don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.

Cora Carmack

#19. Leadership and management are not synonymous.

Travis Bradberry

#20. The Athenaeum always managed to have a scribe on hand whenever anything interesting seemed like it might happen. Durham avoided scribes, figuring that 'interesting' was not a word that was necessarily synonymous with 'pleasant'.

Jeffery Russell

#21. 'America' is synonymous with opportunity.

Tina Brown

#22. Art is only art if it is synonymous with living

Alexander Girard

#23. A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

#24. Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

Will Self

#25. The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#26. The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation. We must work to eliminate government waste, make certain taxpayer dollars go to meaningful programs, and leave resources directly with the people.

Tim Walberg

#27. Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Mortimer Adler

#28. Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#29. I've always found that beauty and confidence are synonymous. If you feel confident, that's what people see.

Cindy Crawford

#30. Putting it precisely, activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#31. But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct.

Suzanne Collins

#32. If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

Lysander Spooner

#33. Running a small country and managing a game is almost synonymous.

Frank Pearce

#34. Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Edward Thorndike

#35. We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood.

Wilma Scott Heide

#36. I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with brands. We have a real winning formula when it comes to championing a different kind of movie, and I think the audience trusts us.

Harvey Weinstein

#37. Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs. -Jaina Solo

Michael A. Stackpole

#38. I am tired of kissing on screen. I have to do it because it is synonymous with me. Also, the producers and directors want to add that element. I don't give it too much importance.

Emraan Hashmi

#39. Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

A.S. Byatt

#40. Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#41. I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

Vanessa Lachey

#42. Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

Annie Lennox

#43. Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

Malaika Arora Khan

#44. Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

Dennis Prager

#45. Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#46. These men had not accepted the fact that culture and weaponry, or even culture and plumbing are not synonymous, and while a society may lag a hundred years behind in comforts and ethics, it may catch up in hardware in a human lifetime.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#47. I feel bad for using the world old as synonymous with bad. Where did I learn that to look old as a woman is bad? Maybe I learned it, like, everywhere.

Melissa Broder

#48. When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?

Ted Dekker

#49. If you haven't figured it out by now, the words grace, love, and forgiveness are nearly synonymous.

Kurt W. Bubna

#50. In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.

Bill Buford

#51. Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

Edward Gibbon

#52. Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

Alan Huffman

#53. Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Corita Kent

#54. News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

Jane Leavy

#55. Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

Elizabeth Goudge

#56. Ignorance. In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

Ruth Ozeki

#57. My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.

Andrew Luck

#58. Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Baruch Spinoza

#59. Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Kent Nerburn

#60. Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

LZ Granderson

#61. Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

H.G.Wells

#62. I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.

George Henry Borrow

#63. I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.

Oprah Winfrey

#64. Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Mike Crapo

#65. Anyone with any real blood in his or her veins cannot help being a fan. Being a true American and being a fan are synonymous.

Lillian Glaser

#66. Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

Stella Adler

#67. The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions ... the two are not synonymous.

Dambisa Moyo

#68. Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Isabelle Adjani

#69. Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

Chip Heath

#70. Potential is synonymous with getting your ass kicked.

Kevin Constantine

#71. For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness ... perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

Kevyn Aucoin

#72. Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Francis Bacon

#73. So many Jonathans. A plague of literary Jonathans. If you read only the New York Times Book Review, you'd think it was the most common male name in America. Synonymous with talent, greatness. Ambition, vitality.

Jonathan Franzen

#74. Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#75. I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

Emma Watson

#76. God, Beauty and Truth are synonymous. Take any one of the three paths and you will reach the goal.

Amit Ray

#77. Many times busyness is often mistakenly equated with productivity. But those words are not synonymous. Just because we're spinning our wheels, rushing from one commitment to the next, doesn't necessarily mean that we are doing anything worthwhile.

Crystal Paine

#78. His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail. Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.

Harper Lee

#79. I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

David McCullough

#80. Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

Bill Buford

#81. Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory. In short, cognizability (in its widest sense) and being are not merely metaphysically the same, but are synonymous terms.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#82. if she'd learned nothing else over the past few years, she knew that things were not always as they appeared. Success and money had nothing to do with happiness. Hustle and bustle didn't mean better. And simple wasn't synonymous with boring.

Laura Bradford

#83. When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

Margaret Atwood

#84. Introversion and shyness are not synonymous. Introversion is a natural personality trait where we go inside ourselves to process our experiences. Shyness, on the other hand, is a condition marked by fear or extreme anxiety in social situations.

Adam S. McHugh

#85. Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

Steve Fisher

#86. Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

Hermann E. Ott

#87. The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.

Nick Denton

#88. The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

Eric Dane

#89. Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.

Stephen Covey

#90. Quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

Carlo M. Cipolla

#91. Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Wayne Dyer

#92. Progress and motion are not synonymous.

Tim Fargo

#93. In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown ... Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility.

Billy Graham

#94. Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

Rachel Bloom

#95. In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.

Bell Hooks

#96. This is what I think, but I don't say the words because the counterpoint of yes and no, love and hate, fear and longing, the need to tear down and the need to build up are synonymous and one.

Robert Vivian

#97. Lights, I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

Ernest Cline

#98. Statesmen can strive for the universal values of justice, fairness, and tolerance, but only so far as they do not interfere with the quest for power, which to him is synonymous with survival.

Robert D. Kaplan

#99. For the purposes of this paper and discussion, I will equate public service with 'public interest' and 'public welfare', which seem to me to be virtually synonymous (Nockels, 1930).

Anonymous

#100. The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

David Levithan