Proportioning Quotes

#1. Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.

Jay Kappraff

#2. Algebra was far more interesting when it was a matter of proportioning out mutton chops so as to poison only half of one's dinner guests and then determining the relative value of purchasing a more expensive, yet more effective, antidote over a home remedy.

Gail Carriger

#3. The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

Herbert Spencer

#4. The show has become my therapy.

Damon Wayans

#5. It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range.

John Elway

#6. God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

Taylor Nadeau

#7. Nobody in life gets exactly what they though they were going to get.
But if you work really hard and are kind, amazing things will happen.
I'm telling you: Amazing things will happen.

Conan O'Brien

#8. Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

Frances Beinecke

#9. Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

Anna Camp

#10. THEY SAY THE best way to move on is to let go. As if letting go is the easy part. As if trying to dim or erase three years of memories, good and bad, is something you can do in one day.

Claire Contreras

#11. 8th-grade test scores. Kids in the richest quarter with low test scores are as likely to make it through college as kids in the poorest quarter with high scores (see chart).

Anonymous

#12. Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.

Beverly Sills

#13. He was a fool to think he could have love twice in this life. Arrogance. He held her hand close his chest with both of his hands. No one was entitled to anything in this life, not the least of all love.

Jami Attenberg

#14. What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

Rick Moranis

#15. Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

Michael Scott

#16. The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. It's a sad day when your iPhone becomes a horcrux, witches hunt your soul and you have to seek the resurrection stone just to find yourself. I was hardly Harry Potter. There was no lightening bolt on my forehead, but if you knew my life you would have met a storm.

Shannon L. Alder