Proportion Quotes

I try very hard to thank my lucky stars and keep it all in proportion and perspective, but it can be very tiring having a smiley face all day. George Michael
Day Try Perspective Face Stars All Day Having Proportion Smiley Very Thank Tiring Hard Lucky Keep
It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen's minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people's lives. Jacob Rees-Mogg
Time Great People Our Minds Statesmen Our Time See Finest Proportion Pointless Absurd Bags Merits Household Issue Issues Foremost Place Little Taxing Hard Plastic Waste Lives Inconvenience
If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex. Jeremy Grantham
Saying Good News You People Will Good News Oppose Significant Something Proportion Facts Hostility Know Involved Accept Because Hear Reflex Reply Want Psychologically Them Themselves Believing
I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was? Jesmyn Ward
Me Thought Men Free Others Ancestry Tell Immigrants Gulf Gulf Coast About Colonists Free Men Color Proportion Like French Always Understood Tangle American African Native Native Americans Spanish Might Coast Who Many Slaves British
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. Mahatma Gandhi
Strength You Soul Own My Own Proportion Firm Subdue Flesh Belief Grows
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. Margaret Fuller
Truth Dreams Though Out Must Dreamer Dreaming Only Shall Proportion Understand His Waking Realities
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. Mercy Otis Warren
Love Power Lust All Nations Arbitrary Arbitrary Power Degrees Prevailed Civilization Proportion Uncontrolled Perhaps Domination Nations Among
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'. Morrissey
Great You Age Yourself Sense Think Everybody Mad Gives Proportion Absolutely Great Sense Well Doing Very Quite Just Younger Hard Now
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. Nigel Short
Education Best Good Our Extremely Out Significant Compulsory Proportion Schooling Fairly Very Low Standard Standards Large Population Britain British Universities
To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it. Oprah Winfrey
Me You Yourself Wonderful Money Others Able Direct Proportion Bless How Wonderful Thing Certainly Thing
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. Pete Townshend
Me Anger Sense Say Proportion Blanket Around
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. W. H. Auden
Differences Direct Triviality Proportion Between Opinion Friends Taste Irritating
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. Andrew Greeley
People Church Sex Research Changed Back Proportion Since Always Leave Doing Issues Been Authority Certain Who Early Started
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body. Antony Gormley
Think Related Apprehension Way Scale About Proportion Proportions Human Human Beings Mean Us Body Beings Things
It's important that you love and respect your body, understand what it needs, and accordingly give everything in appropriate proportion. Anushka Shetty
Love Needs You Respect Important Appropriate Everything Give Proportion Understand Accordingly Body Your Your Body
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. Arthur Conan Doyle
Suppressed Sense Some Proportion Facts Observed Least Just Them Should Treating
Social media can blow anything out of proportion. Bobby Deol
Social Media Out Proportion Blow Anything Social Media
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. C. Northcote Parkinson
Time Law Will Sum Stated Spent Triviality Inverse Proportion Involved Item Any Agenda Means
What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with. Carol S. Dweck
You Challenges Later Mindset More Proportion Stuck Welcomed Likely Greater Praise Were Years Label Malleable Five Child Traits Process Found
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. Charles Babbage
Matter Men Animals Military Considerable Carry Proportion Weights Between Velocity Importance Particularly Affairs Move Which
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. Charles Caleb Colton
Writing Will Difficulty Our Ease Admiration Fine Proportion Always Real Apparent
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. Charles Edward Montague
Distance Varies Inverse Proportion Line His Square Officer Front Duties Front Line Medals Number
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
You Reputation Gigantic Shadow Follows Proportion Like Precedes
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. Christian Nestell Bovee
Ignorance Fear Our Proportion Them Things
A lot of people are blowing Shogun's fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back. Chuck Liddell
Fight People First Mark Coleman Back Out Proportion He Coming His Lot Off Blowing Injury Early
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. D. B. Weiss
Life Music Architecture World Vision Live Drainage Unmistakable See Classic Classical Classical Music Deterioration Give Proportion Weight Like Ideals Because Were Provide Timelessness Pipes Cracks Order Double Mold Games Brick Growing Dragon
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