Proportion Quotes

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Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed… — Pope John XXIII
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the… — Francis Quarles
And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but… — William Shatner
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which… — Alexander Hamilton
The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and… — Alexander Hamilton
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were… — Colin Ward
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,… — James Madison
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken… — James Madison
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the… — Stefan Zweig
We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact — Richard Hall
Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to… — Herman Van Rompuy
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane.… — Andrew Solomon
Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use. — Horace Fletcher
The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as… — Adolf Hitler
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of… — Karl Marx
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let… — Albert Einstein
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving… — Benedict Cumberbatch
I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are… — Judi Dench

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