Quotes About Proportion

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.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that 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.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that 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.

he had proved conclusively that 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.

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proportion which more or less exactly failed to please the eye.

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

You have no sense of proportion, Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime his opinion of his own abilities is strengthened. His sense of proportion is warped. He does not say, 'I have been clever and lucky!' No, he says only, 'l have been clever!' And his opinion of his cleverness grows... and then, roes amis, the ball spins

The British and Americans were indignant with the Russians for extracting reparations from current German production and in the end refused to allow any more equipment to go to Russia from their zones; but the French, without any fuss and occupying the smallest and poorest territory, extracted proportionately even more than the Russians.

Things definitely got out of perspective.

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute the sauce, but the proportion of liquid you add should not be so high that you wash away the extracted flavor you're aiming to create.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.

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

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

The role of the infinitely small is infinitely large.

My head is massive. My head is, like, off the charts.

We achieve a life worth living by understanding how the cosmos achieved an existence worth existing. The impersonally sublime is internalized into personal virtue. Plato: For measure and proportion manifest themselves in all areas as beauty and virtue

Balance is a myth

Go out into a big field with a football and plonk it down to represent the sun. Then walk 25 metres away and drop a peppercorn to represent the Earth's size and its distance from the sun. The moon, to the same scale, would be a pinhead, and it would be only 5 centimetres away from the peppercorn. But the nearest other star, Proxima Centauri, to the same scale, would be another (slightly smaller) football located about … wait for it … six and a half thousand kilometres away!

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.