Fraction Quotes
212 quotes by 189 authors
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Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
— Ali Smith
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I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it…
— Warren Buffett
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life…
— Milan Kundera
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Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we…
— Elizabeth Berg
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything…
— Isabel Allende
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Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on…
— Graham Greene
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Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.
— Alan Moore
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We stare into each other's eyes and softly kiss speaking and saying more with the movement of our lips and the tips of our fingers…
— James Frey
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People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire…
— Martin Amis
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Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
— J R Ward
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
— Frederick Salomon Perls
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Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and…
— Paulo Coelho
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But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own…
— Diana Gabaldon
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The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is…
— Joe Hill
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Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.
— Lauren Oliver
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[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of…
— Jared Diamond
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I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a…
— Albert Hofmann
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We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and…
— Stephen Hawking
Who Wrote These Fraction Quotes
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