Proportion Quotes - Page 17

• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Attitude, Writing, Hands

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• To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Morning, Sun, Looks

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press

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• The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

  James T. Farrell

  Winning, Media, Degrees

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• Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

  Sam Mendes

  Thank You, Reality, Thinking

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview With Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doctors, Numbers, Disease

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

  George Washington

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.374

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• Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

  John Fowles

  Sympathy, Reality, Historical

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

  Laurence Sterne

  Want, Heat, Argument

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.34

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• What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included - just don't consider the beating down of women to be of any consequence. Half the time they won't even acknowledge it, let alone take a stand against it, preferring instead to gaslight women and pretend it's all in their head. Are these the kinds of people we want making decisions for us? The ones who think mockery about women's genitals is bad when it targets no one in particular, but OK when it targets the Prime Minister?

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Thinking, Media

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• There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant portion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.

  George W. Bush

  Escaping, Space, Earth

  "President Bush Announces Global Warming Initiatives". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2001.

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• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

  Plutarch

  Kings, Inspiration, Water

  Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Energy, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

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• The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Creativity, Self, Creative

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'". The New York Times Magazine, p. 52, April 25, 1971.

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• Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!

  Greg Giraldo

  Funny, Girlfriend, Sex

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• The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

  Semir Zeki

  Appreciation, Blood, Flow

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• In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.

  Cyprian

  Faith, Grace, Size

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• Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

  Plato

  Confused, Inspiration, Mean

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• Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mirrors, Law, Perfection

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• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Creativity, Creative, Greek

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• In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religion, Catholicism, Protestantism

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• In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Individuality, Development

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.62, OUP Oxford

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• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Design

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• Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Voting

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• A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man would endure hardship. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.

  Stewart Edward White

  Ignorance, Men, Drawing

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• I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and that in consequence not only will the importance of the Independent Air Force rapidly increase, but the importance of the army and navy will decrease in proportion.

  Giulio Douhet

  War, Independent, Army

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.139, Pickle Partners Publishing

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