Equation Quotes

235 quotes by 211 authors

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population… — P.J. O'Rourke
In a way, her strangeness, her naivetÃ©, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is… — Libba Bray
The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could… — Joe Hill
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. — Sarah Addison Allen
I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply… — Maggie Stiefvater
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my… — Ayn Rand
Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. "Three of us would make four… — John Flanagan
If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish… — William S. Burroughs
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really… — Terry Pratchett
People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over… — David Rakoff
I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty… — Lauren Oliver
The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is… — Joe Hill
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his… — Nathaniel Branden
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that… — Maggie Stiefvater
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality… — Jodi Picoult
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M. Valente
I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Princeâ€”value Aâ€”to kill monstersâ€”value Bâ€”for the purpose of establishing orderâ€”value… — Catherynne M. Valente
But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened. — Sarah Dessen
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. — Milan Kundera

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