Quotes Tagged "proportion"

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.