Inverse Function Quotes & Sayings

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Why did you love her?'
'Well,' I say, 'what a question, anyway!'
How on earth can you say why you love people? You might as well say you know where the lightning is going to strike. — Jean Rhys

Doubt not his grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself. — Criss Jami

It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart. — Rinko Kawauchi

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it. — Ngaio Marsh

The way you see me is the way I am. — Anushka Sharma

For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves? — May Sarton

Because people heal a whole lot faster when they're with someone who loves them — Robin Roe

The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA. — Sam Kean

Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, 'I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls. — Annie Dillard

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks. — L. M. Boyd

I think that success is dangerous because it can make people feel too comfortable; it can lull them into thinking that they have achieved mastery and don't need to be curious anymore. But failure can also do that: it can function as a kind of inverse achievement, where you feel you've achieved the opposite of mastery, and you give up. Right — Eleanor Catton

My mistake was that I didn't kill you. — Kayla Krantz

God." Jules sighed longingly. "You don't even know. That man's hotter than Georgia asphalt in July. — Kele Moon