Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. — Emile M. Cioran
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter… — Anais Nin
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse… — Marilynne Robinson
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb. — Pablo Neruda
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of… — Douglas Adams
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling… — Henrik Ibsen
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer… — Edith Wharton
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She… — E. M. Forster
Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats.… — Kevin Brockmeier
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even… — Leonardo da Vinci
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a… — May Sarton
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is… — Douglas Adams
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that… — Marquis de Sade
The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of… — Kurt Vonnegut
The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that… — Truman Capote
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams

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