Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience. — James T. Farrell
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose… — Sam Mendes
Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place. — Mahatma Gandhi
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the… — George Washington
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,… — John Fowles
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge. — Laurence Sterne
What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included… — Clementine Ford
There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant proportion… — George W. Bush
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing… — Plutarch
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a… — Mahatma Gandhi
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is… — Eric Hoffer
Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like… — Greg Giraldo
The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked. — Semir Zeki
In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing… — Cyprian
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it… — Plato
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.… — John Stuart Mill
Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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