Proportion Quotes
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
Adolph Malan
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Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
Bill Gates
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Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
William Francis Buckley
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The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
Anthony Trollope
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Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
Eugene Delacroix
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
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Because it's an adventure out of all proportion. You have to devote all your strength to it and it's never enough.
Bram van Velde
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
Eugene Delacroix
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The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
Tim Ferriss
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Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.
Ezra Taft Benson
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In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith.
Bob Proctor
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Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
Cennino Cennini
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton