Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for the gratification.Quote by Edward A. Murphy
The time you have to wait before going to bed increases proportionally to how tired you are.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about time
Good luck is inversely proportional to good timing.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about good luck, bad luck, good
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could, it is not an animate entity or agent, it is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine. a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own...Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation, people
I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral, and, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.Quote by Rosie O'Donnell about change, people
During the meeting with President Carter, we proposed the development of a new kind of relationship with the United States.Quote by Daniel Ortega about politics, evolution
Beauty is our weapon against nature, by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.Quote by Camille Paglia about nature, beauty, limits, objects
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.Quote by Thomas Paine about war, law, order, use, world
The linking together of the spiritual and the physical makes it our duty to keep the corporeal frame in proper alignment.Quote by Daniel D. Palmer about duty
Look here: I don't write a political novel to make propaganda for a particular cause.Quote by Orhan Pamuk about opinion
The Law of Triviality briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about law, triviality, time
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about time
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact, if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.Quote by Talcott Parsons
Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.Quote by Andy Partridge about fear
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.Quote by Andy Partridge about pain
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.Quote by Walter Pater about art, quality, magic, nothing
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative, and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, experience, human imperfections
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.Quote by Walter Pater about art, quality, magic, nothing
Our education becomes complete in proportion as our susceptibility to these impressions increases in depth and variety.Quote by Walter Pater about education
Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living.Quote by John Pearson about life