Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier 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
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
If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped… — Daniel Tammet 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
Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during… — Charles Darwin 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
He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not;… — Henry Charles Carey 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 heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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]… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for… — Howe Gelb Copy Share Image
Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's… — Regina Spektor 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
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance… — Horace Copy Share Image
My whole theory about why I couldn’t find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters is because they were… — Geena Davis 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
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share… — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral,… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image