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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. -- Arne Jacobsen
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. -- Andrzej Sapkowski
The primary factor is proportions. -- Arne Jacobsen
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. -- Coco Chanel
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. -- David Hume
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect. -- Carolina Herrera
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. -- Zaha Hadid
Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia. -- Fritz Haber
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. -- Ben Jonson
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. -- Orlando Bloom
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. -- Orlando Bloom
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. -- Christian Dior
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. -- Sarah Bernhardt
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change. -- Monica Raymund
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. -- Philip Emeagwali
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. -- Madeleine Albright
The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. -- David Ricardo
When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable. -- Rene Cassin
For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men. -- Dries van Noten
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. -- William Blake
When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct. -- Rudy Giuliani
You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. -- Charles Jencks
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room. -- Kim Harrison
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version. -- Stacy Schiff
My misery is reaching epidemic proportions. -- Libba Bray
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions. -- Jodi Picoult
Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions. -- Olivia Palermo
To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions. -- Charlton Heston
Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor. -- RuPaul
A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. -- David
What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. -- Mel Gibson
Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another. -- George Herbert
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions -- Alice Sebold
As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. -- D. H. Lawrence
Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another. -- Christian Louboutin
(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions... -- Benedict Fitzgerald
True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions. -- Tony Porter
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. -- Grace Slick
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. -- Susan Pease Banitt
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. -- Craig Brown
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse -- George Crumb
I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions. -- Hedi Slimane
Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions -- Jerry Mander
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. -- John F. Kennedy
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. -- Dean Koontz
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. -- Samuel Johnson
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. -- Mark Twain
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. -- Christopher Wren
Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. -- Henry Fielding
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. -- Theodor Schwenk
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb. -- Pablo Neruda
The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions. -- Masaru Emoto
If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions? -- David Jeremiah
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. -- Corrie Ten Boom
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. -- Henry A. Kissinger
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. -- Philip Treacy
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. -- Charles Sumner
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions. -- Wole Soyinka
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion. -- Dervla Murphy
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor. -- Deborah Prothrow-Stith
[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. -- Steig Larsson
I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable and expressive. -- Thakoon Panichgul
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,. -- Anne McLellan
Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions. -- Dean Koontz
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite. -- Honore de Balzac
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions. -- Kelley Armstrong
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson, -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it. -- Dane Cook
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity. -- George Monbiot
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions. -- Gertrude Atherton
As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions. -- Maryrose Wood
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. -- Bill Griffith
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part. -- Henri Matisse
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters. -- Bill Vaughan
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body. -- Antony Gormley
I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special -- W. Edwards Deming
The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms. -- Jonathan Lethem
Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education. -- Mildred Blaxter
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party. -- Franklin Knight Lane
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Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide. -- Paul Davies
The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe. -- Plutarch
Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon. -- Donnie Wahlberg
The dimensions of video game characters, even when they're scanned from real people, are beefed up with exaggerated proportions in games like Def Jam: Fight for NY to give them more pop. -- Cliff Bleszinski
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. -- Walter Gropius
He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players. -- Pete Carroll
Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos. -- Plato
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me. -- Henrik Lundqvist
Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront. -- Pope Francis
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain. -- Jodi Picoult
There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scÃ¨ne, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves. -- Norman Corwin
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul. -- Luis Barragan
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them. -- Aidan Chambers
...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another... -- Jose Saramago
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. -- Andrew Motion
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. -- David Hume

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