Proportion Quotes · Page 16

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

— Francis Bacon

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

— David Platt

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

— Alf Landon

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

— Pete Townshend

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

— Andrew Solomon

“Success comes in direct proportion to the number of people you help.”

— Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

— John Wesley

The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion…

— Sam Mendes

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life…

— John Boyd Orr

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in…

— Washington Irving

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is…

— E. F. Schumacher

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions…

— Bill Vaughan

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

— Charles Sumner

To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules…

— Burne Hogarth

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If…

— David Hume

The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax…

— Dick Morris

And even with traditional fashion models, where it's their job to be a certain size and a certain proportion, you have to…

— Christian Siriano

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we…

— Samuel Johnson

The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed…

— Tory Burch

Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations…

— Huston Smith

Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the…

— Don Davis

What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all…

— Hans Selye

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the…

— Paul J. Meyer

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

— Tim Ferriss

I would say 'Siruthai' is a masala film with all the masalas in the right proportion.

— Karthi

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

— Otto Weininger

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

— Pablo Neruda

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value…

— Joseph Addison

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

— Maggie Gallagher

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

— Rumi

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

— Marcel Proust

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

— Brian Tracy

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

— Nikola Tesla

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

— Iain Duncan Smith

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

— Charles Caleb Colton