Proportion Quotes

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.

Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.