Fractions Quotes

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

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

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

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

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

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.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.

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

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.

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

We live but a fraction of our lives.

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

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

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

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

Images split the truth in fractions.

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

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

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

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

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

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

If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

I make a living off of playing shows; the albums only make me a fraction of what I make off of shows, especially since I'm doing around 100 shows a year.

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

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.