Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Success comes in direct proportion to the number of people you help.” — Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey Copy Share Image
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing. — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside. — Zero Mostel Copy Share Image
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ. — David Platt Copy Share Image
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. — Wendy Craig Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I have played in the West for 14 years. I played against Dustin Byfuglien a lot. So it's not like I've been… — Chris Pronger Copy Share Image
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy,… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
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