Proportioning System Quotes

#1. Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Seneca The Younger

#2. It requires heavy-duty interventions: sweeping bans on polluting activities, deep subsidies for green alternatives, pricey penalties for violations, new taxes, new public works programs, reversals of privatizations - the list of ideological outrages goes on and

Naomi Klein

#3. The hardest thing to find is peace, though it lay in plain view

Patrick Carman

#4. Everything pivots around the complex event that had happened: the Messiah died, was buried, was raised, was seen. Take that away and Christianity collapses. Put it in its proper place and the whole world is different. That is the news.

Anonymous

#5. You gotta live it to feel it,
you didn't you wouldn't
get it.

Eminem

#6. Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

Morgan Freeman

#7. 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

#8. Youths are passed through schools that don't teach, then forced to search for jobs that don't exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

Huey Newton

#9. We did a lot right with the voters with whom we've enjoyed traditional support. But we haven't done enough to build a larger coalition of voters. We have to modernize our message to reach a larger audience of voters beyond our base.

Kevin Madden

#10. The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.

Rufus Wainwright

#11. I miss 100% of the shots I don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

#12. I've never been much for tears, anyway.

Ed Brubaker

#13. The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in terms of the geometry of this vehicle. How much more mysterious would be our own deaths, and those of the famous and powerful?

J.G. Ballard

#14. Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti

Matthew D. Forgenti

#15. The illegal immigrants who have taken jobs that should go to people here legally, while over 20 percent of Americans are currently unemployed or underemployed.

Donald J. Trump