Proportion Quotes

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

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. . . .

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.