Proportion Quotes

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

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.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.