Proportion Quotes
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.
I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.
Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly.
The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.
'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.
The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.
I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.