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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.
In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.
Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.
I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.
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.
I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
It's important that you love and respect your body, understand what it needs, and accordingly give everything in appropriate proportion.
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.
This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?
I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.
A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact
The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.
