#proportion

Proportion is the heart of beauty. ↗

— Ken Follett

#beauty #construction #proportion #art

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

— Michael J. Fox

#direct #direct proportion #expectations #grows #happiness

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#ignorance #our #proportion #them #things

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#liberating #long #out #proportion #scale

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

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#ballpark #discovered #game #i #inverse

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#down #facing #going #graves #manufacturers

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

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#die #fling #proportion #us #words

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

— Wendy Craig

#being #children #classroom #every #four