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Quotes About Inverse

It's been a very strange thing to see the attention my clothes have gotten, just because it's so inversely related to the amount of thought I put into them.
~ Steve Kornacki
It should be the other way around.
~ Dale Carnegie
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
~ Henry Moore
If obedience to fashion consists in imitation of an example, conscious neglect of fashion represents similar imitation, but under an inverse sign.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
Antonym, n. The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
~ Unknown
Politics is the great generalizer and literature the great particularizer, and not only are they in an inverse relationship to each other---they are in an antagonistic relationship.
~ Philip Roth
T2 is thus also the first and best instance of a paradoxical law that appears to hold true for the entire F/X Porn genre. It is called the Inverse Cost and Quality Law, and it states very simply that the larger a movie's budget is, the shittier that movie is going to be. - from The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2
~ David Foster Wallace
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.
~ Jodi Picoult
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
~ Jodi Picoult
relationships. For example, if the S&P was moving in an inverse lockstep to the bonds, and bonds were down for the day, but the S&P was not responding on the upside, it would tell me I should sell the S&P.
~ Jack D. Schwager
The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.
~ Marcel Proust
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
~ Calvin Trillin
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).
~ Bryan Miller
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
~ Paul Harvey