Ratios Quotes

125 quotes by 120 authors

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand,… — H.G. Wells
If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more… — Swami Vivekananda
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when… — Dar Williams
India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb.… — Narendra Modi
In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This… — Max De Pree
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen… — Wilfred Trotter
I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all… — Tom Araya
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first… — Johannes Kepler
Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of… — Charles Darwin
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of… — Thomas Malthus
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. — William Blake
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can… — Alan Greenspan
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies — Marc Andreessen
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism,… — Oliver Goldsmith
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is… — Horace Mann
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I donâ€™t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active… — Ben Bernanke
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are… — Humphry Davy

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