The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What I like to do is take something from a man's wardrobe and re-proportion it slightly. We've got another jacket in this… — Christophe Lemaitre Copy Share Image
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy,… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 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 proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I live in the United States, and I'm not moving. But from the standpoint of food safety, the countries in Scandinavia do… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of… — Theo Jansen Copy Share Image
