Fractions Quotes

204 Fractions quotes by 180 unique authors

Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in… — James Lovelock
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! — Paul Gauguin
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon,… — Gail Collins
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. — Charles Dickens
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. — David Hockney
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay… — Lawrence M. Krauss
This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction. — Danica McKellar
A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number,… — Danica McKellar
This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to… — Marvin Minsky
Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver… — Ted Turner
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And… — James K. Morrow
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer? — Thomas Hardy
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator,… — Leo Tolstoy
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a… — Philip Pullman
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest. — Anais Nin
Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late. — Ali Smith
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
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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