Top 101 Inverse Quotes & Sayings

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

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.

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

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?

There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

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.

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.

There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great.

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

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.

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

There doesn't seem to be a relationship between budget and comedy. In fact, it might be inverse.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

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

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

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

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

... 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.

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.

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).

'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

There's been a kind of inverse snobbery about culture. I get the feeling some people would look at Shakespeare and say, that's a bit too intimidating for working-class people.

I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

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.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

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.

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.

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.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.