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I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
— Garry Trudeau
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
— Ken Blanchard
The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution.
— Robert Lawlor
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
— Alberto Moravia
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
— Spencer Abraham
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
— Martin L. Gross
In the 1990s, the ratio of buy to sell recommendations climbed to 100 to 1, particularly for brokerage firms with large investment banking businesses.
— Burton G. Malkiel
What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time?
— Gabrielle Zevin
Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.
— Stephen M. Barr
And you Mr. Ground-of-Wheat, Mr. Text, Mr. Is-Was,
can you calculate the ratio between wire and window . . . — Michael Palmer
can you calculate the ratio between wire and window . . . — Michael Palmer
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
— Thomas De Quincey
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.
— Earl Nightingale
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
— Thomas Carlyle
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.
— Benjamin Graham
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
— Benjamin Graham
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
— Georg Simmel
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
— Thomas Malthus
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
— Thomas Carlyle
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
— Gustave Courbet
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
— H.G.Wells
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
— George Will
When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world.
— Dan Brown
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
— Rob Sheffield
the ratio of time spent reading vs. writing is well over 10:1.
— Robert C. Martin
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
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.] — Tacitus
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.] — Tacitus
Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.
— Fulton J. Sheen
When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio ... there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.
— Jeff Baena
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
and bearing one another's burdens. — Henry Ward Beecher
is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
and bearing one another's burdens. — Henry Ward Beecher
Recent gains in property prices suggest that Sydney's price-to-income ratio is closer to the 10x-income range. Unless
— Lindsay David
You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
— Chris Boucher
For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson
What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?
— Chip Heath
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
— Thomas Malthus
The two solutions of the equation for the Golden Ratio are:
x1 = (1+ Sqr5) / 2
x2 = (1 - Sqr5) / 2 — Mario Livio
x1 = (1+ Sqr5) / 2
x2 = (1 - Sqr5) / 2 — Mario Livio
Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.
— Paul Doughty Bartlett
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
— Aldous Huxley
Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.
— Frank-Walter Steinmeier
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 Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.
— Richard Heath
The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.
— Marcel Proust
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
— Earl Nightingale
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
— Thomas Robert Malthus
A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.
— Euclid
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
— Thomas Malthus
Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
— Robert A. Heinlein
Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.
— Trevor Hoffman
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
— Dave Eggers
[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.
— Albert Einstein
Those who shoot in competition seem to have a remarkably high hit potential and survival ratio in actual gunfights.
— Massad Ayoob
The sine of an angle is the ratio of the lengths of the side of the triangle opposite the angle and the hypotenuse.
— Keith Peters
The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay increased from seventy in 1990 to three hundred in 2005.
— Erik Brynjolfsson
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
— William Zinsser
If you want the benefit of having an ox, you're going to have to endure the poo that comes with it. The goal is to have a positive poo to ox ratio.
— Mark Gungor
The air/fuel ratio for any gasoline engine should be at 14.7:1 for it to run at maximum efficiency and the converter to do it work.
— Mandy Concepcion
The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
— Aldous Huxley
The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.
— Joel Fuhrman
The ratio of people to cake is too big.
— Stephen Root
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
— William Blake
Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
— Jon Krakauer
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
— Barry Ritholtz
I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.
— Noel Clarke
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.
— William Blake
If parenting is the box of raisin bran, then real mothers know the ratio of flakes to fun is severely imbalanced.
— Jodi Picoult
The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid
— Bonnie Gaunt
Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.
— Tim Fargo
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
— Margaret Atwood
A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.
— William Safire