Ratios Quotes

125 quotes by 120 authors

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have… — Samuel Butler
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect. — John Jay Chapman
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and… — Richard Doll
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio. — Harvey Mackay
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams
Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio? — Robert A. Heinlein
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague… — Bernard Bolzano
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in… — Henry Parry Liddon
As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on… — Conrad Hilton
The Fed has one power that is unique to it alone: it enables the creation of money out of thin air. Sometimes it makes vast… — Ron Paul
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly… — Ian Macfarlane
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain. — Tom Baker
The ratio of people to cake is too big. — Stephen Root
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure… — Hyman Minsky

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