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Proportion Quotes - Page 2

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

Eli Whitney
Arms, Proportion

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Proportion, Virtuous
Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

John Wesley
Essence, Riches, Proportion

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

John Eldredge
Adventure, Proportion, Feels

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

Henry Drummond
Belief, Influence, Proportion

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

William F. Buckley, Jr.
Government, Proportion, Can Do Something
"Broken Government: Where the right went wrong". CNN, November 03, 2006.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Religion, Proportion, Catholicism

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Ken Follett
Heart, Proportion
Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.487, Penguin

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

Watchman Nee
Blessing, Fruit, Proportion

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Pete Townshend
Anger, Proportion, Blur
"Won't get fooled again..." by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

Mike Dunlap
Proportion, Free Time, Direct

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Earl Nightingale
Rewards In Life, Rewards, Proportion

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Douglas Horton
Never Change, Proportion, Direct

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

William Blake
Race, Poetry, Proportion
Jerusalem "To the Public" plate 1 (1815)

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

Paris Hilton
Hurt, Feelings, Proportion

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Otto Weininger
Men, Important, Proportion
Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.127, Рипол Классик

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Orlando Bloom
Atheism, Disaster, Proportion

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust
Habit, Proportion, Absurdity

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Mahatma Gandhi
Proportion, Realised
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto, Increase, Proportion
Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1831, Harriman House Limited

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Soul, Mind, Proportion

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity, Less Is More, Proportion

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake
Race, Painting, Proportion
William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.201, Routledge

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

Robert A. Dahl
Popular Vote, Vote, Proportion

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Quintilian
Obscurity, Proportion, Incapacity

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