Inverse Proportion Quotes & Sayings

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting. — Queen Victoria

It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct proportion to his impudence. — Paul Sochaczewski

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. — Homer

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. — Robyn Hitchcock

When we stop asking the question "Whose fault is it?" and start asking the question "How can I work with this now?" then we are truly stepping onto the path of taking responsibility for our karma. When — Ethan Nichtern

You want me to change overnight, Katie, and I'm telling you right now that it's not going to happen. You're asking me to forget years of abuse in a matter of days. — Inger Iversen

Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them ... no problem. — Charles Kendall Adams

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission? — Charles Lamb

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. — Lane Kirkland

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing. — Patrick Caddell

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life. — Jaime Pressly

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance. — Eric Hoffer

The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value. — Arnold Schoenberg

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. — Bill Veeck

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. — E.F. Schumacher

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Fresh, sweet honeysuckle. Ripe and rich and ready to be fucked
PLUCKED, he corrected himself, ready to be plucked. — Christine Warren

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example). — Bryan Q. Miller

In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it. — Dana Plato

The danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom. — Calvin Trillin

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things. — Michael J. Fox

The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style. — Ann Beattie

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. — Don Meyer

And perhaps it did not matter in what world she belonged if both worlds were marching in step. — Robin McKinley

The sexiest thing about a man is the he can make a woman smile even when she thinks there is nothing to smile about. — Courtney Giardina

All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role - grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with receiving important information. In recent years, however, I have noticed that my gratification is becoming diluted by a certain weary indignation. They tell me because they regard me as safe. All of them, they make their disclosures to me in the same spirit that they might tell a castrato or a priest - with a sense that I am so outside the loop, so remote from the doings of the great world, as to be defused of any possible threat. The number of secrets I receive is in inverse proportion to the number of secrets anyone expects me to have of my own. And this is the real source of my dismay. Being told secrets is not - never has been - a sign that I belong or that I matter. It is quite the opposite: confirmation of my irrelevance. — Zoe Heller

I seem to grow more acutely conscious of the swift passage of time as I grow older. When I was small, days and hours were long and spacious, and there was play and acres of leisure, and many children's books to read. I remember that as I was writing a poem on "Snow" when I was eight. I said aloud, "I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now while I'm still little, because when I grow up I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like." And so it is that childlike sensitivity to new experiences and sensations seems to diminish in an inverse proportion to growth of technical ability. As we become polished, so do we become hardened and guilty of accepting eating, sleeping, seeing, and hearing too easily and lazily, without question. We become blunt and callous and blissfully passive as each day adds another drop to the stagnant well of our years. — Sylvia Plath

Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master. — Thomas Pynchon

Speaking generally, sociability stands in inverse ratio with age. A little child raises a piteous cry of fright if it is left alone for only a few minutes; and later on, to be shut up by itself is a great punishment. Young people soon get on very friendly terms with one another; it is only the few among them of any nobility of mind who are glad now and then to be alone; - but to spend the whole day thus would be disagreeable. A grown-up man can easily do it; it is little trouble to him to be much alone, and it becomes less and less trouble as he advances in years. An old man who has outlived all his friends, and is either indifferent or dead to the pleasures of life, is in his proper element in solitude; and in individual cases the special tendency to retirement and seclusion will always be in direct proportion to intellectual capacity. For — Arthur Schopenhauer

Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education. — John Fowles

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. — Michael J. Fox

The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. — Idries Shah

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen. — Bill Gates

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. — Charles Edward Montague

Jason smiled and took a sip of his coke before responding. I'm not sure how to reply to that. I thought about just giving you a nasty look. But I see you already have one. — Mark A. Cooper

We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world ... until we are sure of foot. — Neal Shusterman

We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth. Or, I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth. — Brad Stine

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer