Best Proportions Lines
171 Proportions quotes by 145 unique authors
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Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats.…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that…
— Marquis de Sade
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We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
— Dean Koontz
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The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he…
— Lew Wallace
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Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little…
— Samuel Beckett
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My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.
— Libba Bray
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Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what…
— Isaac Newton
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As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty…
— Michael Palin
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life.…
— Andrzej Sapkowski
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...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other,…
— Jose Saramago
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That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and…
— H P Lovecraft
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
— Alice Sebold
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But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at…
— Thomas M. Disch
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I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more,…
— Diana Pharaoh Francis
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
— Jodi Picoult
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses…
— Jodi Picoult
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[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.
— Steig Larsson
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What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the…
— David Mitchell
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Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1)…
— Milan Kundera
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She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.
— Kelley Armstrong
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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to…
— David Hume
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Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon, there would have…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated.…
— Zaha Hadid
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