#disproportion

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #because #contains #deformities #disproportion

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#act #disproportionate #happens #his #inclination

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome. ↗

— Robert Casey

#am #because #certain #democratic #disproportionate

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. ↗

— James Dean

#disproportion #fault #i #i think #kids

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#critics #disproportionate #female #harsh #how

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#challenge #collect #dependent #disproportionately #end

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species? ↗

— Asa Gray

#first #general #great #just #likely

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. ↗

— William Hague

#decisive #disproportionate #indecisive #neither #nor

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#great #great man #man #rest #seems

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#disproportion #great #madness #means #proof