The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. — N. Scott Momaday 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
The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion.… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a… — Stewart Edward White Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your… — David F. D'Alessandro Copy Share Image
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not… — Marquis de Sade 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
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of… — Ian Goldin Copy Share Image
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I like to eat in proportion, eat healthy, home-cooked food with lots of salad. — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats,… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
