Proportion Quotes

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Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should. — James Boswell
When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the… — Mark Helprin
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.… — Walter Pater
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War… — H.G. Wells
We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church. — Henry D. Moyle
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four… — James Q. Wilson
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources. — Martin Van Creveld
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracleâ€¦intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years. — Charles James
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and… — Henry Hazlitt
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far… — Dorothy Fields
A person understands other's language only in tune with his attitude with most people all the time, so it's wise to act nice with individuals… — Anuj
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. — Josiah Strong
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse… — E F Schumacher
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any… — Thomas Friedman
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through… — Saint Francis de Sales
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty… — D. H. Lawrence
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity. — Eric Hoffer

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