Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing! — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality. — Edward Howard Griggs Copy Share Image
The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you. — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One wrong move by a star kid and it immediately comes under the spotlight - even blown out of proportion, at times. — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship… — Iain Duncan Smith 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
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports.… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase,… — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Listen: People are always saying, 'Rickey says Rickey.' But it's been blown way out of proportion. People might catch me, when they… — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is is directly proportional to how much love I have for myself,… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
I like to eat in proportion, eat healthy, home-cooked food with lots of salad. — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them. — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
When expectations are too high, sometimes the disappointment is out of proportion. — Deco Copy Share Image
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ. — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image