Proportionate Quotes

39 quotes by 35 authors

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore de Balzac
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by… — Samuel Johnson
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that… — Brooke Shields
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution. — Steve House
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly… — Thomas Merton
By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and… — Bhikkhu Bodhi
In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only… — Laurance Labadie
The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital… — Scott Turow
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity. — Mary Baker Eddy
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the… — Soren Kierkegaard
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional… — Ronald Reagan
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It… — Earl Warren
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole… — Charles Caleb Colton
The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds. — Joseph Lancaster

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