Proportion Quotes - Page 17

• There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Order, Harmony, Harmony In Music

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• We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

  John Keats

  Life, Men, Bears

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• It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

  Calvin Trillin

  Discovery, Cooking, Records

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.

  Cyprian

  Men, Giving, Catholic

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• ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to their information or ignorance on whom their interested duperies were to be played off. Their sway in New England is indeed formidable. No mind beyond mediocrity dares there to develop itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Lying, Father

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• True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

  Thomas Merton

  Happiness And Love, Unselfish Love, True Happiness

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Hurt, Perspective, Suffering

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2012). “Looking Up When Life Gets You Down”, p.53, Baker Books

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• When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

  Watchman Nee

  Blessing, Fruit

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• The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

  William Bligh

  Navy, Too Much, Voyages

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.2, BoD – Books on Demand

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• By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Race, Progress

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• The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Mind, Grows

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• No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

  Stuart Hughes

  Issues, Pessimistic

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• Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Character, Men

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Boredom

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• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Simplicity, Design, Interior Design

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Equality, Slavery

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• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

  George H. Mead

  Quality, Faces, Separation

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• The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

  Friedrich List

  Agriculture, Growth, Increase

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• There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

  David Allen

  Mind, Done, Inverse

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• 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.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Numbers, People, Groups

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• If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.

  Albert J. Nock

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

  Frank Chodorov

  Moral Fiber, Self, People

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.75, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Decision, Levels, Angry

  W. E. B. Griffin (2004). “By Order of the President”, Putnam Adult

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