Proportion Quotes

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

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

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.