I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result.… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with… — Thomas Edward Thorpe Copy Share Image
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse… — Peter Cooper Copy Share Image
A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular… — Orison Swett Marden 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
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about… — Danielle LaPorte 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
Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per… — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image