Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've… — Ed O'Brien Copy Share Image
In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country… — Edward Gibbon 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
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable… — Thakoon Panichgul Copy Share Image
If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions? — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse — George Crumb 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
From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make… — Stephen Hales Copy Share Image
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan. — Michael S. Smith Copy Share Image
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
