For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability,… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on… — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that… — Gary Reilly 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
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
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
The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about… — Elia Kazan 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
Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high? — Walter Schloss 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
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing… — Janet Yellen 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
A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them… — Ann Friedman Copy Share Image
The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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