Power Ratio Quotes & Sayings

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton

Leo gestured to the empty core. "The syncopator goes here. It's a multi-access gyro-valve to regulate flow. The dozen glass tubes on the outside? Those are filled with powerful, dangerous stuff. That glowing red one is Lemnos fire from my dad's forges. This murky stuff here? That's water from the River Styx. The stuff in the tubes is going to power the ship, right? Like radioactive rods in a nuclear reactor. But the mix ratio has to be controlled, and the timer is already operational."
Leo tapped the digital clock, which now read 65:15. "That means without the syncopator, this stuff is all going to vent into the chamber at the same time, in sixty-five minutes. At that point, we'll get a very nasty reaction."
Jason and Piper stared at him. Leo wondered if he'd been speaking English. Sometimes when he was agitated he slipped into Spanish, like his mom used to do in her workshop. But he was pretty sure he'd used English. — Rick Riordan

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. — H.G.Wells

Did I really just get assaulted by a big scary man, then get saved by my stalker?
... Yeah. That about sums it up. — Belle Aurora

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties. — Fulton J. Sheen

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up. — Lawrence Hargrave

To recapitulate: the exchange-ratio subsisting between commodities and money is everywhere the same. But men and their wants are not everywhere the same, and neither are commodities. Only if these distinctions are ignored is it possible to speak of local differences in the purchasing power of money or to say that living is dearer in one place than in another. — Ludwig Von Mises

He sucked his pipe. Blew out the smoke. The clock ticked, lengthening the seconds between them. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all. — Lester B. Pearson

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. — Major Owens

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

To write for one's bread and to write for mere pastime are very different matters. — William Le Queux

But listen to me, Oscar, I'm doing you a massive favour by telling you what I know: it's much, much more important to study The Ratio. That's what you really need to understand. It's where the power lies" it's all about who you can afford to annoy, and you can't. Where you are, and how likely you are to move. How stable your position is. — Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

There's no privacy for the violently dead. — Zelda Popkin

Nathanael hadn't delivered any specific message; the angel's parting words, which had boomed out across the entire visitation site, were the typical Behold the power of the Lord. Of the eight casualties that day, three souls were accepted into Heaven and five were not, a closer ratio than the average for deaths by all causes. Sixty-two people received medical treatment for injuries ranging from slight concussions to ruptured eardrums to burns requiring skin grafts. Total property damage was estimated at $8.1 million, all of it excluded by private insurance companies due to the cause. Scores of people became devout worshipers in the wake of the visitation, either out of gratitude or terror. Alas, — Ted Chiang

The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies. — Horace Mann

She pushes you because she wants you to be the best."
"The best at what? Matricide? — Shelly Laurenston

To move along the line of natural expectation consolidates the opponent's balance and thus increases his resisting power. In war, as in wrestling, the attempt to throw the opponent without loosening his foothold and upsetting his balance results in self-exhaustion, increasing in disproportionate ratio to the effective strain put upon him. Success by such a method only becomes possible through an immense margin of superior strength in some form-and, even so, tends to lose decisiveness. In most campaigns the dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance has been the vital prelude to a successful attempt at his overthrow. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. — Richard Bach

Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight ratio. It does depend on the raw power. — Lynn Hill

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half. — Eric Hoffer

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear. — Samuel R. Delany