Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.
Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.
There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food. . . The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!