Anomalies Quotes
52 quotes by 51 authors
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
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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
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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
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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
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Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.
— R. A. Lafferty
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
— Robert Venturi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Privacy may actually be an anomaly,
— Vinton Cerf
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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
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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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