Top Ratio Quotes
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 been led to expect.
Samuel Butler
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
Lawrence Hargrave
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
Henry Charles Carey
Lincoln Davis 
Aldous Huxley 
Humphry Davy 
Pieter Zeeman 
Gustave Courbet 
Margaret Atwood All Ratio Quotes
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 been led to expect.
Samuel Butler 
65% of people like this quote
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman
58% of people like this quote
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
Lawrence Hargrave
56% of people like this quote
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley
55% of people like this quote
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
Henry Charles Carey
55% of people like this quote
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.
Pieter Zeeman
55% of people like this quote
In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.
William Odom
55% of people like this quote
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Ken Blanchard
54% of people like this quote
Popular Ratio Authors
Samuel ButlerAldous HuxleyH. G. WellsKen BurnsMargaret AtwoodGeorg SimmelWilliam OdomJames IhaThomas MalthusHenry Charles CareyJohn Jay Chapman
Richard Parks BlandPieter ZeemanLawrence HargraveKen BlanchardGustave CourbetNat FriedmanBonnie RaittHumphry DavyMartin L. GrossThomas J. SargentLincoln Davis
More »