Quotes About Misalignment

I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do.

Jack had some kind of idea that it was all wrong for a car to have a house.

This disconnection of being and doing represents a misalignment of our souls that clouds our presence to ourselves and others.

Feeling like your life's been ripped apart and put together again, only put together wrong.

When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.

Like a fire set by an arsonist, passionate hatred and conspiratorial worldviews reach well beyond their intended target. They are not rationally contained. But even if the antisemites were to confine their venom to Jews, the existence of Jew-hatred within a society is an indication that something about the entire society is amiss. No healthy society harbors extensive antisemitism—or any other form of hatred.

What people want to read often seems incongruous. A pair of biker-types taking away Thoughts of the Dalai Lama. People without access to instruments requesting sheet music. Aspiring poets sharing their work and then borrowing horror stories.

There's a time when things go out of tune. It's not all the time. It's not even a lot of the time. But it is some of the time. And then you have to deal with it all. Everything comes out wrong. You dream about goats and monkeys. People start to look at things wrong. Maybe you think the world looks squashed and flat. Maybe you get stones in the bulgar and you burn the smoked wheat.

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

Ma vie est un film doublé, mal monté, mal interprété, mal ajusté, une erreur en somme.

The ships all go the wrong way.

When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.

The problem with this world is that it doesn't fit. It

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

It was a perfect marrige. She didn't want to and he couldn't

Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought.

The agency problem (or principal-agent problem) also manifests itself in the misalignment of interests in transactions: a vendor in a one-shot transaction does not have his interests aligned to yours—and so can hide stuff from you.

Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.

A sense of wrongness prickles as if a burr has somehow gotten under her skull.

After the Civil War, America continued to churn out prophets of new, simple, complete, and self-contained systems of healing, two of which, chiropractic and Christian Science, survive today. (Evidence does suggest that spinal manipulation can relieve musculoskeletal conditions, but no evidence supports chiropractic claims that disease is caused by misalignment of vertebrae.)

Voglio dire che mancano le motivazioni. L'unica incrinatura seria consisteva nel fatto che il suo tempo interno e il tempo esterno non coincidevano. Ma dimmi, Rosa... non credi che se questo fosse un motivo sufficiente per togliersi la vita, il nostro paese sarebbe quasi completamente spopolato?