Proportion Quotes

• Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

  

  Gerald of Wales
  • Ancient
  • Consideration
  • Quantity

• Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Eye
  • Destroys
  • Outline

• A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Story
  • Noble

• 24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.

  

  Will Hutton
  • Poverty
  • Social
  • France

• A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Proportion

• In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.

  

  Michael Sandel
  • Natural
  • Public
  • Failing

• I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.

  

  Henrik Lundqvist
  • Thanks
  • Fit
  • Athletic

• People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • People
  • Given
  • Entitlement

• What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Prove

• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Force
  • Virtues
  • Developing

• Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Ideas
  • Roots
  • Proportion

• The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

  

  Ernst Engel
  • Family
  • Food
  • Measure

• Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

  

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Architecture
  • Building
  • Careers

• My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Happy
  • Superstition
  • Scientific Facts

• In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • American
  • Proportion
  • Dropped

• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

  

  Rollo May
  • Confused
  • Independence
  • Dependence

• The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Parent
  • Female
  • Borders

• I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Suffering
  • Connection
  • Stress

• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. —Michael J. Fox

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Happiness
  • Expectations
  • Acceptance

• Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.

  

  El Greco
  • Knowledge
  • Painting
  • Count

• You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • People
  • Lying
  • Track

• Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's time.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Life
  • Hungry
  • Meal

• I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Perspective
  • Distance
  • Sense Of Humor

• ...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Soul
  • Suffering
  • Artesian

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