Proportion Quotes

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.