Proportion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
-- Ada Leverson -
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
-- Albert J. Nock -
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
-- Alice James -
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
-- Andrew Solomon -
The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
-- Ann Beattie -
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson,
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
-- Booker T. Washington -
Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
-- Brian Tracy -
The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.
-- Brian Tracy -
Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.
-- Brigham Young -
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
-- Bruce Oldfield -
[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .
-- C. Wright Mills -
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
-- Charles Sturt -
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius -
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
-- Claude Bernard -
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
-- Dana Gioia -
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
-- Daniel Webster -
Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!
-- David Allen -
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
-- Douglas Horton -
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.
-- Eli Whitney -
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
-- Ernst Engel -
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
-- George Crumb -
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
-- George Muller -
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
-- Grace Slick -
We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.
-- Henry D. Moyle -
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
-- Henry James -
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate
-- Ilya Prigogine -
If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.
-- J. M. Ledgard -
Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.
-- James Boswell -
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
-- James Russell Lowell -
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
-- Jim Harrison -
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
-- John Carmack -
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
-- John Edensor Littlewood -
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
-- John F. Kerry -
Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.
-- John Gorrie -
Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.
-- John Nelson Darby -
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
-- John of Salisbury -
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .
-- John Stuart Mill -
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.
-- John Stuart Mill -
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
-- Karl Marx -
The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
-- Lane Kirkland -
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
-- Maggie Gallagher -
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.
-- Mark Helprin -
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.
-- Mark Slouka -
The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.
-- Masaru Emoto -
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
-- Milton S. Hershey -
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy.
-- Milton S. Hershey -
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
-- Mortimer Adler -
I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and managed to conceal the little dog upon my person. All went well until my bosom barked.
-- Mrs. Patrick Campbell -
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
-- Orlando Bloom -
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
-- Orlando Gibbons -
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
-- Otto Weininger -
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
-- Paul de Rapin -
I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.
-- Paul Westerberg -
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
-- Pete Townshend -
The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.
-- Piet Mondrian -
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
-- Quintilian -
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes
-- Robert A. Dahl -
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
-- Sarah Bernhardt -
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
-- Stendhal -
No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
-- Stuart Hughes -
The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.
-- Susan Mallery -
You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.
-- T. Harv Eker -
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
-- Thomas Sprat -
When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
-- W. E. B. Griffin -
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
-- Watchman Nee -
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
-- William Beveridge -
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
-- William Blake -
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky -
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
-- William Hazlitt -
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
-- Zaha Hadid -
Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.
-- Zero Mostel -
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.
-- Austin O'Malley -
We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.
-- Kitty Ferguson -
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
-- L'Wren Scott -
Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.
-- Mike Dunlap -
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
-- Adolph Malan -
The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
-- Elizabeth George
