Proportional Quotes - page 4

Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system. (Mark Steyn)
Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there's tremendous love there too. If you didn't love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn't feel anything. The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior. When our primary focus is on discrete behaviors, we end up ignoring the whole child. View quote
Alfie Kohn
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. View quote
John Stuart Mill
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. View quote
John Stuart Mill
In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. View quote
William Hague
Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate. View quote
Boris Sidis
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world. View quote
Karl Marx
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data. View quote
James Clerk Maxwell
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build. (James Clerk Maxwell)
As usual, the heavyweight beat the lightweight for the overall title. As soon as Iris and Dayana hit the stage the judges began marking and turning in their scoresheets. It wasn't just size: standing next to Iris you could see some of Dayana's proportional problems as well – not major enough to cause her to lose her class but small things made more obvious when standing next to the complete and bigger physique of Iris Kyle - particularly the difference in legs. View quote
Iris Kyle
Nations are barbarian in their infancy but not savage. The barbarian is a proportional mean between the savage and the citizen. He already possesses no end of knowledge: he has habitations, some agriculture, domestic animals, laws, a cult, regular tribunals; he lacks only the sciences. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. View quote
Gregory Benford
In the case of the woman's figure it is the foot, with its extreme proportional smallness, that gives the precious instability, the spring and balance that are so organic. View quote
Alice Meynell
The first element is the experience of the power of being which is present even in the face of the most radical manifestation of non being. If one says that in this experience vitality resists despair, one must add that vitality in man is proportional to intentionality. The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. View quote
Paul Tillich