Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions. — Tony Porter Copy Share Image
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality. — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every… — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities… — Alberto Giacometti 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
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image