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fractions
«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. (Quarter=two bits)»
Author: Charles A. Jaffe
| Keywords:
bits, bits and pieces, cut into, descended, fractions, prices, quoted, Spanish
«We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.»
Author: Herbert A. Otto
(Author)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
actualize, actualized, actualizing, adventuring, caring, consequently, exciting, fraction, fractions, functioning
«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.»
«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»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Kissing,
Life,
Smile
| Keywords:
charities, compliment, countless, fractions, genial, made-up, pleasurable
«PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one --the knowledge and the dream.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, ashes, beckon, beckoned, beckoning, beckons, bower, bowers, Bright Future, clad, continually, crouch, crouched, disappointment, divisions, efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, flies, fraction, fractions, Future of, grand, imaginary, known as, morrow, mumble, mumbled, mumbling, One The, realm, region, region of, regrettable, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, slight, sob, sobbed, sobbing, sobs, temples, The Dream, unlike, wing
«Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!»
«We live but a fraction of our lives»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
fraction, fractions
«The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
charities, fractions, heartfelt
«Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence»
Author: The Talmud
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, fraction, fractions
«Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Individuality,
Men
| Keywords:
activities, fractions, moralities, units