In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance. — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born,… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio... — David Mamet Copy Share Image
At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
