If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to… — Anonymous 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
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far.… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the… — Paul J. Meyer 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
There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
