Proportion Quotes

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

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Government
  • Proportion

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

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Habit
  • Direct
  • Proportion

• Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Development
  • Proportion
  • Discontent

• Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Achieved
  • Proportion
  • Sublime

• 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 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

• 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

• 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
  • Gender
  • Proportion
  • Disregard

• 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
  • Painting
  • Idea
  • Supports

• Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Faith
  • Lifetime
  • Accomplish

• Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Facts
  • Sense
  • Proportion

• 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
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Creatures

• Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Amount
  • Useless
  • Proportion

• Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Valuable
  • Proportion

• 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

• 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
  • Health
  • Demands
  • Take Care

• 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
  • Poet
  • Creator
  • Proportion

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