Big Disconnect Quotes & Sayings

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap. — Rory Bremner

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure ... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures ... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller. — Nick Clegg

The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect. — Yuri Milner

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. — Eric Sevareid

Some that read this book will find its Libertarian and Constitutionalist slant a bit obtuse and maybe even off-putting. This author makes no apologies for viewing the history of the eugenics movement from this political perspective. It is the ethical and legal underpinnings of the American Revolution that remain as a guiding light while the eugenics movement continues to reemerge long after its alleged demise. Limited, or rather minimal government, goes a long way to curtail the disconnect that emerges when government grows so large that it no longer feels compelled to heed to the dictates of the governed. — A.E. Samaan

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp. — Rosecrans Baldwin

You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time. — Elena Dementieva

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst — Dean Cavanagh

If carbon came out of the ground, it has to go back into the ground. — Klaus Lackner

Today may be a very bad day, but tomorrow may be the best day of your life. You just have to hang on until you get there. — Mia Sheridan

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us. — Regina Brett

I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals — Robert Downey Jr.

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear — Anthony Trollope