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  Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Courage, Proportion
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  A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

  David Hume

  Topics in Belief, Wise

  Tags in Evidence, Proportion

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

  L'Wren Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, Perceived

• We must not misinterpret our discomforts into dilemmas.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion

• I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

  Richard Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, Nixon

• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

  Michael J. Fox

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Proportion, Acceptance, Happiness

• I’ve generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Design, Proportion

• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, National

• By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship, Social, Proportion

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, Concentration, Industry

• In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

  Ben Jonson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beauties, Proportion

• Well, the Empire State was about 40′ high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2′ high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

  Fay Wray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, Model, Little

• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Involved, Proportion

• A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

  Thomas Sprat

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Proportion

• We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Proportion

• I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

  Eli Whitney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Armourers, Proportion

• We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

  Emil Cioran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, Words

• The disparity between a restaurant’s price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

  Bryan Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, Food

• Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

  Margaret Fuller

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Proportion, Dreamer, Dreaming, Understand

• We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proportion, Promise