Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, youâ€™ll look great in anything. — Tim Gunn
Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality. — Rodney Mullen
Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions — Jerry Mander
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of oneâ€™s usual setting,… — Nicolas Bouvier
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself,… — Walter Gropius
We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without. — Henry David Thoreau
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms,… — Thomas Huxley
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the… — A. N. Wilson
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. — Mark Twain
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can… — John of Salisbury
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — Edmund Burke
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. — Mercy Otis Warren
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the… — Alexander Hamilton
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be… — Karl Marx
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. — Henry A. Kissinger
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of… — N. Scott Momaday
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. — N. Scott Momaday

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