Proportion Quotes

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of… — Hector Hugh Munro
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing… — Andrew Solomon
The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix… — Charles J. Givens
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in… — Soong May-ling
The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of… — W. W. Rouse Ball
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater… — Aristotle
The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters,… — John Desmond Bernal
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science… — Thomas Huxley
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to… — Plato
Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people… — Mildred Blaxter
The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and… — Hippocrates
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of… — Ray Dalio
I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond… — Prabal Gurung
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time,… — Kim Harrison
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. — John F. Kerry
The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar… — Henry George
The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports,… — Eugene Delacroix
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes… — Camille Paglia

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