A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them. — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion. — Donovan Copy Share Image
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. — Frantz Fanon 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
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
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
Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by… — John Bright Copy Share Image
There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto… — David Hume 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
The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree… — Hans Heysen Copy Share Image
When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
When expectations are too high, sometimes the disappointment is out of proportion. — Deco Copy Share Image
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them. — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
I like to eat in proportion, eat healthy, home-cooked food with lots of salad. — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
