Quotes About Unequal

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

America is a messy, ragged, unequal country with dramatic strengths and weaknesses. It could be better governed and more equitable, but it remains incredibly strong, at least as measured by traditional metrics of power. What has shifted noticeably in recent years is America's "soft power"—often defined as its appeal, example, and capacity to set the agenda.

He had a strong conviction that no government could be ordained that could resist these internal forces, when, they are directed to its destruction by bad men, or unreasoning mobs, and many then believed, as some yet believe, that our government is unequal to such pressure, when the assault is thoroughly desperate.

He ended up feeling my boob for the whole movie! He ate popcorn with his left hand and got lucky with his right. It started to feel kind of lopsided, for the right one to get literally an hour and a half's worth of attention and the left one to be all on its lonesome. I barely knew what the movie was about, because I was thinking about my boob the whole time.

These scenes, when one of the parties offers more of his heart than the other wants, are always painful.

I am not to know the contents of his Letter. The hearts of us women, when we are urged to give way to a clandestine and unequal address, or when inclined to favour such a one, are apt, and are pleaded with, to rise against the notions of bargain and sale. Smithfield bargains, you Londoners call them:

Wie oft lull' ich mein empörtes Blut zur Ruhe, denn so ungleich, so unstet hast du nichts gesehn als dieses Herz.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

Het was tien tegen tien. En dus was het geen eerlijk gevecht, legde Svengal later uit, want ze waren dus eigenlijk met drie keer zoveel als de tegenstander.

When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As soon as the war was won, England, France, and Italy tried to frustrate Wilson's program because it was in conflict with their imperialist policies. As a consequence, the Peace Treaty was one of the most unequal treaties ever negotiated in history.

Human rights advocates can work to extricate themselves from their neoliberal companionship, even as others mark their limitations, in order to restore the dream of equality to its importance in both theory and practice. If both groups are successful, they can save the ideal of human rights from an unacceptable fate: it has left the globe more humane but enduringly unequal.

life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided

The brain can be divided roughly into two hemispheres of unequal function, and patients can get strokes in either. The hemispheres contain separate "spotlights" for visual attention. The left hemisphere's spotlight is small, capable of paying attention only to items on the right side of the visual field.

I use the word love loosely, and only because my vocabulary is unequal to the task of describing the precise nature of that maze, that forest of feelings

It's a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate. A battle of lovers against haters. It's an unequal battle, because the love is on the street and vulnerable. The hate is on the street, too, but it is armed to the teeth, and protected by all the machinery of the state.

Is this pain and despair that surround me a result of cancer, or has it just been released by cancer? I feel so unequal to what I always handled before, the abominations outside that echo the pain within.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Equality doesn't exist in nature and therefore can be established only by force. He who wants geographic equality has to dynamite mountains and fill up the valleys. To get a hedge of even height one has to apply pruning shears. To achieve equal scholastic levels in a school one would have to pressure certain students into extra hard work while holding back others.

Any two forces, being unequal, constitute a body as soon as they enter into a relationship.

She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her highly unnecessary, like some legal routine or the difficulty of getting passports. Her interest in expiation quickly vanished in the face of its actuality.

For barter to work, two individuals do not need to offer things of equal value. Trade is often unequal, but still benefits both sides.

asimetría de la información, un estado en el que en una transacción una de las partes posee mejor información que otra.

they were still practicing the fiendishly difficult pattern at the end of the act where the diagonal lines of swans cross over and dissolve to form three groups: unequal groups, since the number seventeen is notoriously difficult to divide by three.

When hearts break they do not break even.