Disproportionality Quotes & Sayings

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable. — Mick Jagger

A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye. — Heather O'Neill

I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that. — Sonia Rykiel

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. — Barack Obama

(The coconut tree was a machine: a solar-powered, self-building factory that required no maintenance and cost no money - a clean-running, noiseless manufacturer of useful things. In went soil, air, and water; out came food, drink, fuel, building materials, rope, medicine, and, yes, pillows.) — Peter Rudiak-Gould

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the "work" will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work. — Malcolm Gladwell

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10) — Robin R. Meyers

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it. — Frederick Lenz

I had no idea how lonely I was until I wasn't lonely anymore. — Fyn Alexander

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish. — Max Stirner

To behold Queen Gwenhwyvar and the Lady of the Lake together was to peer too long into the sun's brilliant dazzle, to feel the heart lurch in the breast for yearning, to have the words stolen from the tongue before the lips could speak them. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do. — Sam Kean

Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. — Gustave Flaubert

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor. — Joely Fisher

I drink to make other people more interesting. — Ernest Hemingway,