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I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room -- Emily Dickinson
Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago. -- Elizabeth Warren
I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel. -- Armistead Maupin
I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure. -- Lou Reed
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. -- Alexander Hamilton
It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals. -- DeForest Kelley
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. -- Robert Reich
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. -- Russ Carnahan
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet. -- Roger Bannister
When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions. -- Mark McKinnon
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals. -- George Cukor
Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad. -- Ruby Wax
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. -- John C. Maxwell
I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change. -- Danica McKellar
These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country. -- Marcy Kaptur
I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health. -- George Matthew Adams
Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places. -- Alessandro Del Piero
Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. -- Gus Van Sant
We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted. -- Bernie Siegel
Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one. -- Dennis Bergkamp
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me. -- Alan Ball
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. -- James Buchan
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. -- Marc Faber
If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.' -- Zac Goldsmith
After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass. -- Joe Namath
The well-adjusted make poor prophets. -- Eric Hoffer
What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? -- Abraham Maslow
I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird. -- Joss Whedon
To know God is to be adjusted to daily living. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. -- Jeanette Winterson
I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity. -- Shia LaBeouf
I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society. -- Andrea Gibson
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices. -- Tim Heidecker
I don't have an attitude! And it CERTAINLY... doesn't need to be adjusted! -- Vickie Guerrero
I have an incredibly supportive husband and family and an incredibly well-adjusted daughter. -- Bree Turner
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. -- Anais Nin
I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. -- Adam Driver
He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up. -- Jonathan Franzen
Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted. -- John Green
Usually when I buy clothes off the rack, I need to have them adjusted. -- Kim Kardashian
Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. -- Michelle Anthony
Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling. -- George Bergman
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. -- Ray Dalio
He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman -- Neil Patrick Harris
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr
The best-adjusted people are the "?psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people. -- Andrew Mellon
Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field. -- Aaron Rodgers
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. -- Angela Carter
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. -- R. D. Laing
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... -- Robert M. Pirsig
I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross. -- Sam Ewing
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted. -- Garth Stein
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. -- Elizabeth Edwards
I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant. -- Ed Helms
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. -- Robert Reich
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. -- Akio Morita
Sure I may look adjusted, but I can't function in normal society because most of you are too stupid. -- Daniel Tosh
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. -- Douglas Coupland
I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on. -- Daisuke Matsuzaka
Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society. -- Aldous Huxley
I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those. -- Emily Giffin
The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered. -- Joey Skaggs
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted. -- Stefan Molyneux
I've found that it's a great stress reliever to get adjusted. It takes away a lot of the tightness in the muscles. -- Jose Canseco
Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better? -- Malcolm Bradbury
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. -- Dwight L. Moody
America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence. -- Jeff Greene
I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well. -- Christine McVie
Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm. -- Gottfried Keller
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. -- Adolf Hitler
Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they're paying more in taxes. -- Simon Black
There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups. -- Sophie Hannah
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. -- J. G. Holland
We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone. -- Tina Fey
I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions. -- David Foster Wallace
It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers. -- Alexandra Robbins
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything. -- Sue Grafton
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted. -- Daniel D. Palmer
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal. -- Natalie Maines
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. -- Marshall McLuhan
A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. -- Charles E. Wilson
I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me. -- Riccardo Tisci
I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part. -- Edmund Burke
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. -- Sara Zarr
I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters. -- Thomas Lennon
In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd. -- Nathaniel Rich
It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. -- H. Beam Piper
We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not. -- Stella Young
I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider. -- Lasse Hallstrom
I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other. -- Jan Morris
We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it. -- Astro Teller
In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints. -- Jimenez Lai
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. -- Marya Mannes
I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King's Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting? -- George R. R. Martin
I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted woman, because those people aren't as fun or funny. -- Sarah Baker
... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party. -- Andrea Mitchell
All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted -- Louis MacNeice
Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk. -- Uday Kotak
The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican. -- Janeane Garofalo
A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood. -- David Sarnoff
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister. -- Hermann Hesse
I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.' -- Henry Rollins
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position â?? I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down. -- Curtis Jackson
His son's transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging from a slab of stone. All that remains is to watch it happen. -- Justin Cronin
There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families. -- Jessica Valenti

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