Skewed Data Quotes

#1. The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want ... I want ... ,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.

Nancy Farmer

#2. Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

Mary Ann Mobley

#3. When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

Jung Chang

#4. I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Rupert Sheldrake

#5. You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.

Guy Pearce

#6. It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

Michael Josephson

#8. Oh, Danny, it's so confusing."
"Not really. You're falling in love with him. Or are already in love with him."
"But am I? Or just ... overwhelmed?"
"Love is overwhelming.[ ... ]

Jennifer Ashley

#9. Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

Susan B. Anthony

#10. Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

Finley Peter Dunne

#11. The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed.

Marek Edelman

#12. Opportunities don't knock at all. They don't have to, they're already all around us. It's up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them.

Dave Thomas

#13. There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

Mo Ibrahim

#14. Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust.
Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.

Dave Pelzer

#15. He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.

Jonathan Franzen

#16. Think twice before you buy. Decide before you purchase anything where you are going to keep it and what you are going to use it for. If your answers to either of these questions are vague, then you are about to purchase clutter. Desist from buying.

Karen Kingston