Proportion Quotes - Page 38

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

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Development, Increase, Discontent

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Powerful, Light, Years

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.33, Routledge

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Children, Perspective, Perception

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• Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Careers, Architecture, Building

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.170

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• Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Block, Air, Greek

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The primary factor is proportions.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Death, Design, Primaries

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

  C. D. Darlington

  Maturity, Bird, Pigeons

  Genetics and Man Ch. 16

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• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  Wendy Craig

  Children, Abuse, Population

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• Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.

  Dave Hunt

  Forgiveness, Appreciation, Our Love

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• Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it must be gratified with variety, by more rapid flights and bolder excursions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Eye, Intellectual

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.135

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• Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Forget, Charm

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.

  Murray Rothbard

  Desire, Anarchy, Plunder

  Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1363, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

  J. C. Ryle

  Book, Scripture, Worst

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• Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

  Stanislav Grof

  Reality, Bridges, Differences

  Stanislav Grof (1985). “Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy”, p.16, SUNY Press

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• How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness. Good is done by degrees. However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance, even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Opportunity

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• This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?

  John Daly

  Golf, Coke, Drink

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• We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live.

  George F. Kennan

  Life, Christian, Humility

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• Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Self, Individual

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  L'Wren Scott

  Obsessed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The dimensions of video game characters, even when they're scanned from real people, are beefed up with exaggerated proportions in games like Def Jam: Fight for NY to give them more pop.

  Cliff Bleszinski

  Real, Character, Fighting

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• A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

  Martin Gardner

  Beautiful, Education, Musician

  "Engaging. Interactive. Informative". The Dover Math and Science Newsletter, www.doverpublications.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Yoga, Play, Drawing

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• It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Party, Personal Worth, States

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• Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,
  Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned,
  Orders, by the degrees of complication of that structure,
  Families, by their form, as far as determined by structure,
  Genera, by the details of the execution in special parts, and
  Species, by the relations of individuals to one another and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation, etc.

  Louis Agassiz

  Mean, Order, Class

  Louis Agassiz (1857). “Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America: pt. I. Essay on classification. pt. II. North American Testudinata. 1857”, p.170

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• At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1) Every culture must begin to affirm the female future. 2) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture. 3) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race.

  Sally Miller Gearhart

  Responsibility, Men, Race

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