“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Coco Chanel
“We are sorry the matter has reached these proportions and repeat that we had no intention to offend anyone, and that we as the rest of the Danish society respect freedom of religion.”
Carsten Juste
“What was a small personal matter became, over the last two years, an almost fatal circus of unprecedented proportion,”
Martha Stewart
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth”
Will Rogers
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”
Isaac Newton