Proportion Quotes · Page 21

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank…

— Hilaire Belloc

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing…

— Plutarch

Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the…

— Brigham Young

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which…

— John Quincy Adams

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of…

— Kenneth Clarke

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger…

— Robyn Hitchcock

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly…

— Timothy Garton Ash

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that…

— Lin Yutang

That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion…

— Benjamin Franklin

There was no opposition organized against Bela Kun. Like Lenin he surrounded himself with commissaries having absolute authority. of the 32 principle…

— Leon V. DePoncins

To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or…

— Vaclav Klaus

Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and…

— John Paul Caponigro

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through…

— Richard Ford

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood;…

— Aleister Crowley

If the US Government was a family—they would be making $58,000 a year, spending $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit…

— Dave Ramsey

“The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…

— Andrew Solomon

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

— Warren MacKenzie

Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that…

— Dwight L. Moody

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we…

— Eric Hoffer

To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has…

— Samuel Johnson

When I became involved with Chris Timothy, it became a truly huge national scandal. It was out of all proportion and went…

— Carol Drinkwater

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in…

— William Shakespeare

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who…

— Cicely Tyson

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or…

— Thomas Malthus

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as…

— Edward Miner Gallaudet

... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has…

— Carolina Herrera

The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life…

— Roger Housden

We're a trading nation. We need to have trade, we rely on it, a vast proportion of our jobs in our country…

— Jagmeet Singh

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its…

— Martin Van Creveld

If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.…

— Virginia Woolf

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity…

— Anonymous

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the…

— Fay Wray

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any…

— James Cash Penney

The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become…

— David Ricardo

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism -…

— Camille Paglia

Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed…

— Horace Fletcher

The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to…

— Alexander Hamilton