For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor. — Max von Laue
Extracurricular Parallel to none I am perpendicular — Nicki Minaj
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. — John Maynard Keynes
I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%. — Bernard Baruch
The next point -- that's all you must think about. — Rod Laver
What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness. — Flann O'Brien
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. — Kurt Vonnegut
I like to be on the edge of the possible. — Jørn Utzon
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. — Louise Bourgeois
If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. — Danielle LaPorte
It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight. — Erwin Rommel
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer. — Richard Serra
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. — Eric Hoffer
Short Offset Quotes
Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness. — Jack O'Neill
The best way to offset tension is with physical activity. — Bonnie Prudden
The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions. — Mahatma Gandhi
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. — Henry P. Fairchild
Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth. — Alan Ladd
Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness! — Rishi Kapoor
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%. — Benjamin Graham
To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality. — Faith Popcorn
Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you. — Shalom Harlow
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct. — James Harvey Robinson
Rendering yourself more efficient – either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder – won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all else being equal, the demands will increase to offset any benefits. — Oliver Burkeman
The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia. — Kelly Miller
A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care. — Diana DeGette
The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs. — Joe Baca
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor. — Sam Walton
To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light! — Arthur W. Pink
Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements. — Roberto Assagioli
NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2. This information, contrary to the assumption used in all the warming models, is ignored by global warming alarmists. — Walter Cunningham
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. — Vince Cable
For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes. — Eric Topol
Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race. — Albert Einstein
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges. — Abbe Pierre
Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites? — H. L. Mencken
With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation. — Catherine Austin Fitts
Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong. — Li Ka-shing
There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche. — Kevin O'Leary
Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow. — Sayings
Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication. — Robert H. Schuller
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. — Jeff Goodell
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions. — Warren G. Bennis
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. — Alvin Toffler
When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow. — Vera Nazarian
And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got. — Franklin Raines
You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset. — Kendrick Lamar
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses. — J. D. Hayworth
If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost. — Steven Chu
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody. — Bruno Schulz
I think certain people may make it to sexual; and then others will offset that with the depth of R & B and all of its substance it has to have, in order to be called R & B or, known for an looked at to be called R & B and I kind of straddle the fence on that one because in my earlier years I was the 'Nasty Man,'. — Ginuwine
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations. — Ronald Reagan
Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes. — Erma Bombeck
Technology usually provides a series of tradeoffs. Each asset is offset by a deficit...A major problem occurs when those who suffer from technology's defecits and those who benefit are not the same people. — Donald A. Norman
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things. — Richard P. Feynman
Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending. — Steny Hoyer
I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done. — Franklin Raines
Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide [health care] reform . . . would be far offset by the savings. — Henry Simmons
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?' — Alfred Hitchcock
I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. — Joseph Newcomer
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective. — Ben Bernanke
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. — Rem Koolhaas
I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.' — Jared Leto
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