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Quotes About Proportion

I like to eat in proportion, eat healthy, home-cooked food with lots of salad.
~ Urvashi Rautela
The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.
~ John Boyega
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
~ Pierre Bonnard
I have really long legs, so I like cropped pants that make it look like I intentionally wanted my pants short instead of pants that happen to be too short for me.
~ Franchesca Ramsey
Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.
~ Vitruvius
Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view.
~ Peter L. Steinke
but if the Spirit "bloweth" where He "listeth," those, too, who have become believers here are made partakers of that gift; and that according to the proportion of their faith, not in consequence of their pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
~ Philip Schaff
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
~ Pierre Bonnard
The key with a full-skirt shape is to balance it out with a great figure-hugging top.
~ Twiggy
Ambiguity vanishes from the fanatic's worldview; a narcissistic sense of self-assurance displaces all doubt. A delicious rage quickens his pulse, fueled by the sins and shortcomings of lesser mortals, who are soiling the world wherever he looks. His perspective narrows until the last remnants of proportion are shed from his life. Through immoderation, he experiences something akin to rapture.
~ Jon Krakauer
It offended his sense of proportion and economy to throw away a ninety-percent serviceable string of lights. It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value and, by extension, the value of individuals generally: to willfully designate as trash an object that you knew wasn't trash.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. 
~ Jonathan Swift
Luego me midieron el dedo pulgar de la mano derecha, y no necesitaron más, pues por medio de un cálculo matemático, según el cual dos veces la circunferencia del dedo pulgar es una vez la circunferencia de la muñeca
~ Jonathan Swift
Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It
~ Jonathan Swift
body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By which the reader may conceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince.,
~ Jonathan Swift
Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By
~ Jonathan Swift
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion
~ Abraham Verghese
Listening is talking for him; there's an eloquence to this kind of attentiveness; it's rare, and yet he's generous with it. He alone amongst all the people she knows uses his two ears and one mouth in that exact proportion.
~ Abraham Verghese
The movement of a man's finger is as important or unimportant as the most terrible catastrophe, for as against the Infinite both are of the same dimension.
~ Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation - that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted.
~ Adolf Hitler
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
~ L'Wren Scott
The inaccuracy issue. Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it's not great. But I think that it's a little blown out of proportion.
~ Josh Allen
Much meat, much disease.
~ Proverb
There is geometry in the humming of the string.
~ Pythagoras