Zitat des Tages über Anteil / Proportion:
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.
I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
