Proportion Quotes · Page 31

Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of…

— Robert Lawlor

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

— Dean Koontz

The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from…

— Henry George

The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all…

— Ian Mckellen

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

— Mark Rydell

I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in…

— Charles Darwin

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

— Grace Slick

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

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to…

— Herodotus

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

— Laurence Sterne

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

— Ilya Prigogine

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

— Corrie Ten Boom

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first…

— William Morris Hunt

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and…

— John Daly

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";…

— John Balguy

What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and…

— Clementine Ford

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep…

— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

— Eugene Delacroix

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous…

— Samuel Johnson