Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. Votes: 3
John GalsworthyProportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonMathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. Votes: 2
John Edensor LittlewoodThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Votes: 2
Francis BaconThe results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. Votes: 2
Denis WaitleyThe consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. Votes: 2
John F. KerryThe quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. Votes: 2
Tony RobbinsAn error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Votes: 2
Henri Frederic AmielA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Votes: 2
Henry David ThoreauWoman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. Votes: 1
Elizabeth Cady StantonChange occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. Votes: 1
Douglas HortonMen are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. Votes: 1
George Bernard ShawThought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonCuriously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. Votes: 0
Eugene DelacroixIn proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithRequire... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes Votes: 0
Robert A. DahlRequire... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. Votes: 0
Robert A. DahlAn individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. Votes: 0
Otto WeiningerIn proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism. Votes: 0
William Edward Hartpole LeckyModern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. Votes: 0
Paul BertIn the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. Votes: 0
Isaac Mayer WiseFarmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauOne's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love. Votes: 0
Emanuel SwedenborgCharter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. Votes: 0
Maggie GallagherGardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. Votes: 0
May SartonRocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. Votes: 0
John CarmackCountries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuMen, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. Votes: 0
Adam SmithIn proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Votes: 0
Karl MarxIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Votes: 0
Abraham VergheseSometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultOnce you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyA man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellThere has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings. Votes: 0
Sarah Moore GrimkeBad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness. Votes: 0
John PiperPrudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Votes: 0
John WesleyWe grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate Votes: 0
Ilya PrigogineWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldYou will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace. Votes: 0
T. Harv EkerLaughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside. Votes: 0
Zero Mostel... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. Votes: 0
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikA man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. Votes: 0
Christina RossettiThe quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. Votes: 0
Tom LandryDisease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality. Votes: 0
Rodney MullenA man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisOur sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it. Votes: 0
Stephen L. CarterLove is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. Votes: 0
Victor HugoI love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now. Votes: 0
Dennis LehaneMen prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. Votes: 0
Ayn RandA man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him. Votes: 0
Otto WeiningerFalsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. Votes: 0
Richard WhatelyOur repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. Votes: 0
William HazlittAn accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself. Votes: 0
William HazlittI'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion. Votes: 0
Michael KeatonThe impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion. Votes: 0
Jasper CarrottGovernment can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you. Votes: 0
William F. Buckley, Jr.Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available. Votes: 0
Tim FerrissTo be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice. Votes: 0
Charles LambA man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEvery man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonA luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciThe proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race. Votes: 0
Sally Miller GearhartIn books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyIn proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. Votes: 0
William Lloyd GarrisonWhy do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen. Votes: 0
Bill GatesTime spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. Votes: 0
C. Northcote ParkinsonNot only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary. Votes: 0
Clarence DeMarThe worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhen you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger. Votes: 0
W. E. B. GriffinKnowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn. Votes: 0
H. P. BlavatskyWhen diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard. Votes: 0
Adolph MalanTrue happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonA good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. Votes: 0
Iain Duncan SmithIn proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonThe relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position. Votes: 0
Piet MondrianThe reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked. Votes: 0
Semir ZekiGardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. Votes: 0
Phyllis McGinleyThe scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend. Votes: 0
Ron LizziThe charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustI had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance. Votes: 0
Bel KaufmanA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauHeaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesIn proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyGovernment can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship. Votes: 0
Brian TracyThe ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you. Votes: 0
Susan MalleryMany will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciWhen the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing! Votes: 0
Watchman NeeIt is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe power that flows from His name, the name Jesus, will be in proportion to our love for His Word. Votes: 0
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