Proportions Quotes

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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more… — William Blake
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. — Madeleine Albright
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and… — James Emanuel
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions. — Dean Koontz
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and… — Isaac Newton
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never… — Richard Dawkins
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an… — Barry Goldwater
A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The… — William Broad
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study… — Thomas Edward Thorpe
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Jean-Victor Poncelet
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at… — Alexey Brodovitch
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
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

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