Numerator Of A Fraction Quotes & Sayings

When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any. — Olga Kurylenko

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton

Quit staring at my breasts," she hissed with a soft stomp of her heel.
His gaze flashed to hers.
"Why? They're mine. — Katie Reus

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise. — Joseph Gurney Cannon

How do you 'clear' your thoughts? You have only other thoughts with which to do the job; 'thoughts', therefore, are both blockage and broom. I suppose what we mean is that we should stop reasoning and try to 'feel' - which presumes that what we 'feel' is more valuable than anything we think ... — Sebastian Faulks

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country. — Peter Singer

The natural man lives for himself; he is the unit, the whole, dependent only on himself and on his like. The citizen is but the numerator of a fraction, whose value depends on its denominator; his value depends upon the whole, that is, on the community. Good social institutions are those best fitted to make a man unnatural, to exchange his independence for dependence, to merge the unit in the group, so that he no longer regards himself as one, but as a part of the whole, and is only conscious of the common life. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pia was blackmailed into committing a crime more suicidal than she could possibly have imagined, and she had no one to blame but herself. — Thea Harrison

They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges.' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies. — Louise Hay

Commit to being better. Your life gets better only after you get better. — Hal Elrod

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

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

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs. — Lily Allen

bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction known as happiness? — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Necrotelicomnicon was written by a Klatchian necromancer known to the world as Achmed the Mad, although he preferred to be called Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches. It is said that the book was written in one day after Achmed drank too much of the strange thick Klatchian coffee which doesn't just sober you up, but takes you through sobriety and out the other side, so that you glimpse the real universe beyond the clouds of warm self-delusion that sapient life usually generates around itself to stop it turning into a nutcake. Little is known about his life prior to this event, because the page headed 'About The Author' spontaneously combusted shortly after his death. However, a section headed 'Other Books By the Same Author' indicates that his previous published work was Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches's Book of Humorous Cat Stories, which might explain a lot. — Terry Pratchett

I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. — John Green

Qualifications don't count. All Ike did was invade Europe and look like your uncle. — James Ellroy