Quotes by Proportion Proportion is the heart of beauty. Ken Follett proportion heart I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary. Kenneth Clarke proportion nuts culture A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. Khalil Gibran humour proportion We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth. Kitty Ferguson significant proportion body The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. Lane Kirkland attendance proportion meetings Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished. Leonardo da Vinci proportion grows I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived. L'Wren Scott proportion obsessed A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population. Ludwig von Mises proportion population country Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. Maggie Gallagher proportion teacher school The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. Marcel Proust absurdity proportion habit I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst. Marcus Tullius Cicero hunger-and-thirst proportion age When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion. Mark Helprin proportion energy matter The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled. Mark Slouka proportion population humanity The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each Mahatma Gandhi being-at-peace proportion world Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. Mahatma Gandhi realised proportion Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous. Mary Wollstonecraft virtuous proportion The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions. Masaru Emoto proportion results symphony Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head. Melina Marchetta proportion grows problem Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time. Mike Dunlap free-time proportion direct One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy. Milton S. Hershey proportion feels «1234567»
