Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. — Friedrich List
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just… — Eli Whitney
I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make. — Eli Whitney
I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in… — David Berkowitz
There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much itÂ´s getting done! — David Allen
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. — Robyn Hitchcock
If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it… — Albert J. Nock
The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have… — Frank Chodorov
When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger. — W. E. B. Griffin
In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community. Now that eradication… — Sheila Kitzinger
There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scÃ¨ne, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio… — Norman Corwin
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor. — Deborah Prothrow-Stith
The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong. — Harry Segall
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo… — Ernst Engel
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face;… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could… — John Edensor Littlewood
"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have… — Agatha Christie
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started… — Ernst Mayr
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt
Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in… — Horace Bushnell

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