If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. — Edith Wharton
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios. — Aristotle
Simplicity, suitability and proportion. — Elsie De Wolfe
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key. — Alain Ducasse
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. — Leon Battista Alberti
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE. — Valentino Garavani
In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace. — Cyprian
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Marcus V. Pollio
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. — John Venn
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. — Paul Cezanne
In everything, there is a share of everything — Anaxagoras
Short Proportion Quotes
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry
A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. — David
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. — Anthony De Mello
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. — Ernest Hemingway
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. — Douglas Engelbart
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. — Denis Waitley
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. — Leon Trotsky
It depends on how much rice you eat with the sauce. — Vietnamese Proverbs
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong
Proportion Image Quotes
Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor. — RuPaul
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Blown Out Of Proportion Quotes
This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke? — John Daly
Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago! — Greg Giraldo
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings. — Paris Hilton
Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion. — Norman Schwarzkopf
I understand that my son loves me and I love him, and everything just really got blown out of proportion, and I'm OK with that. I'm still here. My son is around me all the time. At the end of the day he still loves me and I love him, so it is what it is. — Adrian Peterson
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. — Nicola Formichetti
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of their heart.
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am. — John Hunter
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. — Julie Nixon Eisenhower
I have played in the West for 14 years. I played against Dustin Byfuglien a lot. So it's not like I've been out East for my whole career and never played against the guy. That may have been blown out of proportion, I think. — Chris Pronger
I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself. — Kajol
Blowing Out Of Proportion Quotes
Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion. — John C. Maxwell
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. — Robert Breault
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. — Jim Fowler
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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
The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion. — Gillian Jacobs
Out Of Proportion Quotes
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. — Andrew Solomon
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction - out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East - is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest. — Thomas Friedman
In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work. — Booker T. Washington
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ. — Luci Swindoll
Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle. — T. Berry Brazelton
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. — John Carmack
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. — Margaret Fuller
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Christina Rossetti
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. — Michael Korda
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
Proportional Quotes
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life. — Milton S. Hershey
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms. — Michel Foucault
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior
I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special — W. Edwards Deming
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you’ll look great in anything. — Tim Gunn
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. — Walter Gropius
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm. — Sarah Bernhardt
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority. — Stanley Milgram
Proportional Representation Quotes
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. — Francis Bacon
I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action. — Helen Suzman
[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties. — David Lloyd George
Mr Hughes's current claim of "bisexuality" has the whiff of artful centrist positioning about it: bi- is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system. — Mark Steyn
There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause. — Cass Sunstein
I'm just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society's aspirations, politically. The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties. — Billy Bragg
Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same faces. There's also a lack of morals - it's one affair after the other. A system like that cannot be successful. — Emmanuel Macron
If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity. — Peter Adamson
I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation. — Hugh Dalton
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Portion Quotes
That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. — William Wordsworth
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. — Marquis de Lafayette
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time — Rick Warren
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. — Andrew Sean Greer
The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. — William Wordsworth
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. — Ida B. Wells
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. — Marquis De Sade
We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue. — Walter Cronkite
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid — Michelle Alexander
A surprisingly high percentage of negotiations hinge on something outside dollars and cents, often having more to do with self-esteem, status, and other non-financial needs. — Chris Voss
Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts. It isn’t this thing you achieve after 30 years of sitting in a corner meditating. It’s something you can achieve moment to moment and you can be a certain percentage enlightened every single day. — Naval Ravikant
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. — Xaviera Hollander
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup
Remember: 65, 85, 95, 100 percent. Decreasing raises and ending on non-round numbers will get your counterpart to believe that he’s squeezing you for all you’re worth when you’re really getting to the number you want. — Chris Voss
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. — Heinrich Himmler
It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology. — Donald T. Regan
Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills. — Pele
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on. — David Remnick
Proportionate Quotes
Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts. — Bernie Sanders
Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased. — Ralph C. Smedley
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. — Zero Mostel
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated. — Samuel Smiles
No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense. — Christopher Hitchens
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected. — Ludwig Quidde
A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. — Alexis de Tocqueville
My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself. — Jeremiah Burroughs
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again. — Jane Austen
Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace. — Antonin Scalia
Dimension Quotes
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. — Charles Bukowski
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood. — Coretta Scott King
I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions. — Frederick Lenz
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. — Bill W.
If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being. — Jacob Lawrence
The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God. — Athanasius of Alexandria
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. — Vince Lombardi
The computational power of the network is proportional to difficulty; and it appears that difficulty is proportional to bitcoin price. It follows that unless bitcoins become substantially more valuable than they are today, the Bitcoin network will never be substantially more resistant to attack than it is today. For Bitcoin to succeed and become secure, bitcoins must become vastly more expensive. — Hal Finney
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. — William Bligh
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. — Mark Rydell
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. — Isaac Newton
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
Because deep learning is so empirical, success in it is to a large extent proportional to raw experimental throughput - the ability to babysit a large number of experiments at once, staring at plots and tweaking/re-launching what works. This is necessary, but not sufficient. — Andrej Karpathy
The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is is directly proportional to how much love I have for myself, because we cannot give others what we ourselves do not have. And, unsurprisingly, the amount of love, respect, support, and compassion I receive from others is also in direct proportion to how much I love myself. — Anita Moorjani
Decision-theoretic means you assume there’s proportionality between the universes’ way of splitting things up. So if you’re rolling two different dice, then the universes proportion themselves into measures. — Naval Ravikant
Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god. — Mircea Eliade
Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest. — Auguste Rodin
The degree of the pain will be proportional to the price you will be able to charge When they hear the solution to their pain, and inversely, what their life would look like without this pain, they should be drawn to your solution. — Alex Hormozi
He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness. — Susanna Wesley
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic. — Gregor Mendel
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. — Emily Carr
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. — David Wilkerson
The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions. — Masaru Emoto
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation. — George Washington
in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned. — Dorothea Dix
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason. — Albert Pike
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity? — Alexis de Tocqueville
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