Quotes About Proportion

The size of a human cell is to that of a person as a person's size is to that of Rhode Island. Likewise, a virus is to a person as a person is to the earth; an atom is to a person as a person is to the earth's orbit around the sun; and a proton is to a person as a person is to the distance to Alpha Centauri.

Central to all these interlinked themes was that curious irrational, phi, the Golden Section. Schwaller de Lubicz believed that if ancient Egypt possessed knowledge of ultimate causes, that knowledge would be written into their temples not in explicit texts but in harmony, proportion, myth and symbol.

This is why the past seems perfect, a time of proportion and order, because it is immersed in speech. For animals, memory might reside as a sensation, a resonance in the nerves, or in the meat of the spine. But for humans, the past cannot be described except in words. It is nowhere else.

Not the perception of the proportion of things outside of us but the experience of identification with whatever's outside of us (this is obviously a physical impossibility ; that's why it's a mental responsibility).

man is so little, in respect of the greatest man, as the greatest in respect of God; for here, in that, we have not so much as a measure to try it by; proportion is no measure for infinity.

a 3-Season Diet that gives us all of nature's nutrients in proper proportion over the course of a year,

I think everything in life is a balance.

Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.

Lo esencial en cada una es la proporción entre dosis activa y dosis letal, pues sólo la cantidad distingue al remedio del veneno.

A person who does not have beauty inside own heart only in proportion loves to get admired of own outside beautiful looks from the people.

History seems to suggest blatantly that a man gains the level of wisdom in proportion to the height & length of own freedom from the bondage of a woman.

The proportion to which a person's heart is devoid of compassion tends to find own mind empty to get the happiness in personal life a plenty.

We can trace enough evidence from the history that a person who tends to CARE less about the welfare of the people has in proportion to have affection more towards CAR or other material products.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

Given such an array of challenges, one might expect people to welcome federal help. In truth, a very large proportion of the yearly budgets---in the case of Louisiana, 44 percent---do come from federal funds…

If a third of Americans' time is being spent online, why is only a quarter of ad dollars spent there? It's not proportional.

The parts of a film should be in proportion to the whole, and a long film pasted together out of quick little scenes makes me dizzy.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

To our natural and human reason, I say that these terms 'large,' 'small,' 'immense,' 'minute,' etc. are not absolute but relative; the same thing in comparison with various others may be called at one time 'immense' and at another 'imperceptible.

Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion their body.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.