Quotes of Fraction - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Our relationship with Microsoft is kind of like a marriage. It's terrific 99 percent of the time. And one percent of the time we argue, usually over multimedia. And in life, that's not a bad ratio. ”

- Unknown

“ I didn't believe 100 percent that it's the best thing for children. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Most worries just don't happen. Much of what we worry about happens for the good, not the bad, and only the tiniest fraction of what we fear actually occurs. ”

- Walter Anderson

“ A very receptive state of mind… not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. ”

- Minor White

“ It is only a small fraction who will stand on the Olympic podium. ”

- Lord Killian

“ Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. ”

- Charles A. Jaffe

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

- Henri Cartier Bresson

“ We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home. ”

- Rosalyn Sussman

“ Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ”

- Andre Breton

“ Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

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

- Paul Gauguin

“ The world is so filled with interesting things to do that the longest human life could not exhaust more than a small fraction of them. ”

- Frank Gaines

“ I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers. But let's speak of them-the would-be filmmakers, the tiny fraction. I've witnessed many times when I've showed films and was present at a screening that exactly those people feel very much encouraged by what I'm doing. ”

- Werner Herzog

“ I can't think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe… ”

- Nolan Ryan

“ The world offers itself to me in a thousand ways, and I ache with an awareness of how infrequently I am able to receive more than a small fraction of what is offered, of how often I reject what is because I feel it is not good enough. ”

- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“ The quality of life does not depend on happiness alone, but also on what one does to be happy. If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one's existence, if one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess… ”

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“ The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth? It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything… ”

- Jeff Melvoin

“ A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, by the moment, the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover. ”

- Richard Neutra
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