Anomalies Quotes

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. — Walter Bagehot
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without… — Franklin Pierce
Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit. — R. A. Lafferty
We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training… — Midge Decter
From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run… — Thandie Newton
We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for… — Emma Thompson
Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability… — Branford Marsalis
We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world.… — Arthur Kleinman
I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a big part of my life:… — Lana Del Rey
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi
I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The… — James A. Baldwin
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become… — Emile M. Cioran
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that… — Vincent Van Gogh
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient… — Paul Gauguin
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some… — Simon Newcomb
Privacy may actually be an anomaly, — Vinton Cerf
As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and… — Irene Khan
Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly… — Shalom Auslander

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