Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the… — David Mitchell
What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to… — Richard Ford
America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked. — David Letterman
The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you. — Susan Mallery
Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I… — William Shakespeare
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1)… — Milan Kundera
Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's… — Aleister Crowley
The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in… — Alfred North Whitehead
She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions. — Kelley Armstrong
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. — Andrew Solomon
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to… — David Hume
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will… — Mark Twain
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and… — Robert Baden-Powell
In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it… — Baruch Spinoza
People are falling in love because a certain man has a certain type of nose. People are falling in love with fragments! Nobody is bothered… — Rajneesh
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom… — John Stuart Mill
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is… — Alan Bennett

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