Proportion Quotes

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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. — Earl Nightingale
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in… — Henri Nouwen
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. — Camille Paglia
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the… — C. Northcote Parkinson
There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to… — Oren Peli
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. — Marcel Proust
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be… — Ludwig Quidde
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. — Will Rogers
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for… — Norman Schwarzkopf
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small… — Peter Singer
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. — Iain Duncan Smith
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving… — Iain Duncan Smith
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. — Stendhal
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau

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