Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. — Oprah Winfrey
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life.… — Andrzej Sapkowski
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. — Abraham Verghese
...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other,… — Jose Saramago
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like… — Rajneesh
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and… — H P Lovecraft
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income. — Ha-Joon Chang
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions — Alice Sebold
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as… — Henry David Thoreau
But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at… — Thomas M. Disch
I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more,… — Diana Pharaoh Francis
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have… — Agatha Christie
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has… — Marcel Proust
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions. — Jodi Picoult
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses… — Jodi Picoult
He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I… — David Levithan
[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. — Steig Larsson
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished… — Rumi
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. — Jane Austen
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. — Frantz Fanon

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