Quotes About Proportion

Except for his hands, which belonged on a piece of monumental sculpture, and his small head, he was well proportioned. His muscles were large and round and he had a full, heavy chest. Yet there was something wrong. For all his size and shape, he looked neither strong nor fertile. He was like one of Picasso's great sterile athletes, who brood hopelessly on pink sand, staring at veined marble waves.

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

In serene souls there is no jesting. Jesting indicates a loss of equilibrium; it is both a succession of disturbances and the center's restoration. The sharpest wit has passion. The condition of the dissolution of all proportion - despair and spiritual death - is most fearfully witty.

A criminal cannot complain about wrongs done him because one treats him harshly and inhumanely. His offense was an entry into the realm of violence, power and tyranny. There is no restraint and proportion in that realm, and therefore he should not be surprised at the disproportion of its counter-reaction.

Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better.

Form follows beauty.

You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.

Nos cœurs sont des affamés. Notre esprit ne connaît pas le repos. La vie est belle à proportion qu'elle est féroce, comme nos proies.

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more.

mean proportional, i.e., if b and c are two given positive numbers, then x is the mean proportional of b and c if it satisfies the statement "b is to x as x is to c." Or, in algebra which

This means that everything the child must use in taking care of himself must be in proportion to his size and ability; the hook to hang his clothes on; the places where he washes and brushes and teeth, where he hangs his towel....

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”

The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).