Ratios Quotes

125 Ratios quotes by 120 unique authors

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. — Aldous Huxley
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. — Thomas Malthus
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in… — Frances O'Grady
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard… — Bonnie Raitt
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. — Rob Sheffield
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. — Georg Simmel
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I… — Daniel Tammet
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But… — Andrew Weil
There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will… — Tom Robbins
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. — Arthur C. Clarke
Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water… — Edward Abbey
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a… — Douglas Adams
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not… — Banana Yoshimoto
He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to… — Douglas Adams
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an… — Jon Krakauer
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total… — Jim Butcher
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man… — Zadie Smith
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who… — Logan Pearsall Smith
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics,… — Carl Sagan
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in… — William Osler
In Texas money goes further, with one of the lowest costs of living, one of the lightest tax burdens as a percent of income, and… — Mark McKinnon
I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship… — Arthur Ganson
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running… — Charles Jencks
Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating. — Lee Myung-bak
The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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