In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

In fact I argue that the future of advertising whatever the technology will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street except the location is in the mind.

For example the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

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.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

What I am sad about is that there is now in America no equivalent to the art circuit.

I do think that at one time being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot thank goodness.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette ' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Western civilization unfortunately does not link knowledge and morality but rather it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

I like to say jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

I wanted to be a great white hunter a prospector for gold or a slave trader. But then when I was eight my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

Every adversity every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.