Proportion Quotes
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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
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A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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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.
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targeting was very careful and that action was proportionate.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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To me, the money is – it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
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We have succeeded in observing two laws of the utmost importance, the first is that the increase in the number of heart beats is in quite direct proportion to the sum of the weights lifted to a determined height, the second is that the quantity.
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.
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The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.
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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
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Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
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I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.
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What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
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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.
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The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
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Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.
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Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
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Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.
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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .
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The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
