Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. — Otto Weininger 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 degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked. — Semir Zeki 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
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
“The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He… — John Keats 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
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
Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would… — Dwight L. Moody 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
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter 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
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray — John Piper Copy Share Image
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance. — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard. — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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