Disproportion Quotes

#1. I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

James Dean

#2. Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

Asa Gray

#3. The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

Albert Einstein

#6. Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.

Eugene Delacroix

#7. Irony and disproportion are all God's way. He keeps us off balance with his unpredictable connections. We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it small. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big.

John Piper

#8. Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.

Bruno Schulz

#9. An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. When we love God with our hearts in disproportion to our minds, our faith is out of kilter with the kind of faith God wants us to have.

Patty Houser

#11. It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Franz Kafka

#12. Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Victor Hugo

#13. In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is a thing of changing lights and lengthening shadows, a twilight full of fancies and distortions.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

Henry Villard

#15. There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

Elizabeth I

#16. Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Life serves the risk taker.

Sophia Amoruso

#18. Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

David Foster Wallace

#19. The hard heart does not love the Redeemer - but the renewed heart burns with affection towards Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. As regards the DF 4000 Deluxe X-ray body scanner we were discussing, please be assured, I have never known a case of a husband using it to track down shopping parcels hidden about his wife's person.

Sophie Kinsella

#21. People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

Mark Zuckerberg

#22. He was an intense lover, and his zeal created in me a new sense of my own otherness. Sometimes after he was gone, I would examine myself naked in the mirror, and for an instant would imagine I saw what he saw - an enchanted body.

Siri Hustvedt

#23. I thought it was terrible. I don't know who to believe. Williams was very loyal and honest. Nobody could ever say different. Sometimes, that got him into a lot of trouble. But after he died and they cut his head off, that made me sick.

Curt Gowdy

#24. I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.

Jodi Benson

#25. If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#26. I'm warning you. I'm not a good man, Karissa, and I never will be. So don't think you can fix me, or that I'll ever change, because I won't. I can't. You have to know, if this goes any further, if you ask me to stay, I'm not going to be able to let you walk away.

J.M. Darhower

#27. There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#28. I earnestly urge all our people to unite under the true banner of the Master, to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ so powerfully that no truly converted person could ever be aligned with these controversial concepts and procedures contrary to the Lord's plan of salvation.

Harold B. Lee

#29. The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.

Noam Chomsky

#30. Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.

George Lois