Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years. — Charles James Copy Share Image
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major… — Deborah Prothrow-Stith Copy Share Image
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I… — William Morris Copy Share Image
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects.… — Edmund Burke 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
Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of… — Javan Copy Share Image
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to… — Franklin Knight Lane Copy Share Image
I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
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