Top 250 Ratio Quotes & Sayings

I use the golden ratio to create the perfect shape on my clients' faces.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio.

I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I

The ratio of people to cake is too big.

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 the first power in comparison of the second.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

The biggest income we make is from live performances, without any doubt. That's about a 4-to-1 ratio from anything else.

The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

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.

Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the "slave state" disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.

I've tried the keto diet and all these things, but what I've found is that as long as I'm keeping a 2:1 ratio of carbs to protein, that works for me.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

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.

Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I know myself that we goalscorers are selfish and always thinking about our goalscoring ratio.

The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

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.

Any filmmaker, big directors, and I'm not dropping any names - I actually have couple names I want to say, but I will not - we have a ratio. Each thing you repeat, my ratio is one to four.Actually some people are ratio one to 34. I know couple directors, big directors, they are just shooting over and over.

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Never marry something until you've established the perfect pizza ratio...The premise is simple. My husband and I knew we were made for each other because we're a 6:2 ratio, six slices for him and two for me...Never marry a man who wants two slices one week and four the next. They're undependable and highly unpredictable and will likely dump you for some Internet honey who says she doesn't mind his back hair.

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

You do not want to get your debt ratio out of whack.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

There is no doubt in my mind that as central banks begin to abandon the dollar, there will be an enormous amount of monetary demand for silver and the silver ratio will plummet. If you look at all of the monetary crises over the last 100 years, any time that there has been even a whiff of a collapse of the dollar, the silver ratio has soared.

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

I think my booking ratio is 100 auditions for one job.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.