The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. — Bob Allen Copy Share Image
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high? — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used. — Raymond Rubicam Copy Share Image
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. — William Blake Copy Share Image
In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio. — George Will Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And,… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be… — Jennifer Shahade Copy Share Image
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry -… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Kirk Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections. — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image