Top 378 Fraction Quotes & Sayings

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable energy is transferred from one level to the next. ... Thus herbivores will account for a much smaller fraction of the biomass [than plants] and the carnivores for a still smaller fraction.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. And it's that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

What fraction of the twinkling lights you see at night have Earths?

In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

We live but a fraction of our lives.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

You go to other countries and you look at industries they have, and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have.

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.

One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

Eighty percent of what doctors do, tech can do at a fraction of the cost - especially your rural doctor in India.

I'm not opposed to the idea of helping regions that are struggling to get a reasonable fraction of federal research spending.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.

The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!