Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take… — Donny Osmond
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America.… — Richard Schiff
One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our… — Owen Paterson
Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need… — Benjamin Franklin
Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure. — Thomas Erskine
If we come to the point of retaining a sense of a proportion in the midst of all the smallest as well as in the… — Helen Luke
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer… — Thomas Merton
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,… — Ambrose Bierce
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in… — Orison Swett Marden
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you. — Dr Robert Anthony
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life… — Henry David Thoreau
The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and… — Emile M Cioran
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example). — Bryan Miller
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of… — Edmund Burke
The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the… — Abraham Maslow
I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's… — Sarah Chalke
The glorification of the 'woman's role, then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less… — Betty Friedan
Focus is like an air hose that can easily over inflate even the smallest problem and blow it way out of proportion. — Senoraroy

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