#proportion

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#perspective #proportion #inspirational

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. ↗

— Douglas Engelbart

#directly proportional #embarrassment #mature #person #proportional

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ↗

— David Hume

#evidence #his #man #proportions #wise

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#direct #direct proportion #generally #her #passing

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#fashion #form #give #just #objects

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#original #passion #proportionate #resistance #woman

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#adjustment #beauty #cannot #change #harmony

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bureaucracy #cold #cold war #elephant #grown

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. ↗

— William Allingham

#attain #been #could #disproportionate #gravity

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked. ↗

— John Anderson

#australia #course #depend #easily #exports