Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead,… — E. M. Forster
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetitesâ€¦in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of… — Mark Twain
â€ŽA general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of… — Walter Scott
We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in… — Fred Rogers
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… — Simone de Beauvoir
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. — Karl Marx
.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Proportion is the heart of beauty. — Ken Follett
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly… — Charles Darwin
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not… — John Fowles
The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. — Tony Robbins
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was… — Elizabeth Gaskell
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events,… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head. — Melina Marchetta
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the… — Jose Rizal

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