Varies Inversely Quotes & Sayings

The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower. — Frank Mankiewicz

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality. — Gilles Peress

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue. — Saul Alinsky

The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding ... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future. — H.G.Wells

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness. — Boris Sidis

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. — Bertrand Russell

It is no more appropriate to speak of a difference between the purchasing power of money in Germany and in Austria than it would be justifiable to conclude from differences between the prices charged by hotels on the peaks and in the valleys of the Alps that the objective exchange-value of money is different in the two situations and to formulate some such proposition as that the purchasing power of money varies inversely with the height above sea-level. The purchasing power of money is the same everywhere; only the commodities offered are not the same. — Ludwig Von Mises

(Perhaps he realized that) two damaged people could never really make a whole undamaged person between them. — Rhona Cameron

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class. — Edmund A. Opitz

By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true. — Isaac Newton

Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you. — Lauren Hammond

We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others. — Siri Hustvedt

If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an 'oomph,' this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is a good theory, is it not? No. It is nowhere near as good as the proposition that the planets move around the sun under the influence of a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square of the distance from the center. The second theory is better because it is so specific; it is so obviously unlikely to be the result of chance. It is so definite that the barest error in the movement can show that it is wrong; but the planets could wobble all over the place, and, according to the first theory, you could say, 'Well, that is the funny behavior of the 'oomph. — Richard Feynman

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world. — Walt Disney

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. — Matthew McConaughey