Variances Quotes

#1. I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.

Eve Ensler

#2. We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#3. GREAT SECRET Whenever I'm learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

James Marcus Bach

#4. Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

P.D. Ouspensky

#5. I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Clint Eastwood

#6. No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

Terry Pratchett

#7. No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.

Richard P. Feynman

#9. You're a different human being to everyone you meet.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.

Daniel Tosh

#11. I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.

Christian B. Anfinsen

#12. Oh God, what is it with mankind? Never happy unless it's blowing someone up.

Alex Scarrow

#13. A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.

Jimmy Carr

#14. The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Dan Webster

#15. God has not the slightest need for our proofs.

Karl Barth