Proportionately Versus Quotes

#1. Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

Edward Abbey

#2. If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

Edward Hallett Carr

#3. I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

Steve Nash

#4. I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

Alice Walker

#5. Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. ...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.

Toby Litt

#7. When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Comte De Lautreamont

#8. The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

Zero Mostel

#9. Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

Walter J. Phillips

#11. When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

Richard Whately

#12. Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

Ralph C. Smedley

#13. The unvarnished truth is that what we most frequently give thanks for betrays what we most highly value. If a large percentage of our thanksgiving is for material prosperity, it is because we value material prosperity proportionately.

D. A. Carson

#14. The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but to benefit the masses even more than the rich.

Henry Hazlitt

#15. The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation.

Peter Medawar

#16. but the force of traditions, as in all crumbling empires, grows proportionately with the explicit revelation, in the machinery of government and commerce alike, of the preponderant action of all principles of inertia...

Julien Gracq

#17. Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Leon Battista Alberti

#18. Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where?

Marilyn L. Rice

#19. Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

Jared Diamond

#20. Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

Claude Bernard

#21. Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Alexander Pope

#22. The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.

Samuel Smiles

#23. A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

Max Beerbohm

#24. Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

Joely Fisher

#25. Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

Ludwig Quidde

#26. Anything you make in a 'normal' sized loaf pan can be made in the longer pan - you just have to increase the recipe proportionately.

Dorie Greenspan

#27. I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Like the terrestrial crust of the earth / which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul / is a miracle of mutual pressures.

Anne Carson

#29. A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

Joseph P. Bradley

#30. Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

Mary Baker Eddy

#31. That was the best time. The last day, the day of leaving. It was a good journey. It became different at the other end.

V.S. Naipaul

#32. Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Alison Lurie