In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Man is all symmetry Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides; Each part may call… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples,… — Luca Pacioli 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
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions... — Benedict Fitzgerald 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
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. — John Galsworthy 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
I like to go to England, and I'll tell you why. I like to go to a country where I am considered… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if… — Horace Copy Share Image
The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
