Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that…

“The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril”

— Niall Ferguson

“Last night I learned that for everyone alive on earth today, there are thirty ghosts lined up behind them. Not literally lined up, of…

— Wendy Mass

That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing…

— Geena Davis

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

— Emily Dickinson

My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering…

— George Carlin

... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt…

— Mark Kirk

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of…

— Dave Eggers

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy…

— Dar Williams

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it;…

— Earl Nightingale

About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail…

— Rick Carlisle

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

— Neil Armstrong

The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity…

— Richard Doll