We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers. " The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
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.
What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. . . That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each