No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They… — Herman Van Rompuy Copy Share Image
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our exports there,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion… — Ernst Engel Copy Share Image
Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them. — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm.… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
