#proportions

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

— Ben Jonson

#just #life #may #measures #perfect

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#failure #fiasco #mythic #proportions #simply

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#fashion #matter #proportions

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#believing #bomb #carry #city #fear

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#difference #disaster #failure #fiasco #mythic

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#american men #developing #epidemic #every #hiv

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#became #been #before #citizen #city

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party. ↗

— Franklin Knight Lane

#democratic #democratic party #estimation #found #great

Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#everything #fun #gone #group #into

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #him #his #like #man