Top 38 Inverse Proportion Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
Ann Beattie
#4. 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
#5. Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.
John Fowles
#6. Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
Thomas Pynchon
#7. At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
Calvin Trillin
#8. The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
Don Meyer
#9. 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
#10. The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
Idries Shah
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
Patrick Caddell
#14. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
#15. 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
#16. Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
Bill Gates
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
Lane Kirkland
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#23. 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
#24. Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
Anthony Daniels
#25. Had he liked her all along? Was she the girl he saw every day and was I the girl who fed him and showered him with kisses once a week? It occurred to me that maybe all the time he omitted in our stolen conversations wasn't simply long, boring hours of inventory. I was too angry to cry.
Kiera Cass
#27. If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet
Ryan Holiday
#28. He suddenly felt dismayed at how little he had seen of her the last two years; he had so few opportunities to press her hands in his to stop them from trembling.
Milan Kundera
#29. My days tend to be packed, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I enjoy my work, and it is a privilege to do what I do.
Brendan Rodgers
#30. Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#31. Unbelief is a burden, but the pretence of belief, hypocrisy, is death to all that is decent in you.
David Staines
#32. Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished,
Mike Tyson
#34. To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
George A. Sheehan
#35. The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
Sakyong Mipham
#36. If you have no shame, and it's your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?
Stephen Malkmus
#37. Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.
Hermann Hesse
#38. I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.
Anna Quindlen
