Quotes of Proportional - somelinesforyou

“ Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ”

- St. Evermond

“ This is a case where I think that even what's available now is vastly underutilized around the world. ”

- Bill Gates

“ The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em. ”

- Jack Warner

“ The worst hatred is that of relatives. ”

- Tacitus

“ Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. ”

- Thomas Hardy

“ All envy is proportionate to desire. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. ”

- Jan Van Ruysbroeck

“ I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ The hole and the patch should be commensurate. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. ”

- Michael Korda

“ The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. ”

- Douglas Engelbart

“ Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand. ”

- Craig Bruce

“ The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. ”

- Frank Kent

“ Success is directly proportional to effort. ”

- Unknown

“ Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ”

- Ezra

“ How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional. ”

- Sue Atchley Ebaugh

“ Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. ”

- Joseph De Maistre

“ The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action. ”

- Unknown

“ The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet. ”

- Unknown

“ Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined. ”

- Unknown

“ Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined. ”

- Harrisberger

“ Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ”

- Sidney J. Harris

“ The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself… ”

- Unknown
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