Proportions Quotes

"I`ve just bought 800 acres of forest on the border of Panama and Costa Rica. I want to buy the last "first growth forest" and turn it into a national park. It`s a human tragedy of immense proportions. Many native Indians in that region are losing their homes daily, and it`s going to affect both you and me, because that`s where most of the world`s oxygen comes from. The Amazon rain forests are the world`s lungs and without them we will not be able to breath. It`s a very scary thought and it`s not too far off."

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

There`s a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

The direction of the collection is it`s a very precise look, strict, proportions are controlled, ... It`s the first time we are introducing wovens and this also helps in a way to give more structure to the collection.

Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,

It grew to huge proportions ? much larger than I expected. I was kind of thinking if we could get in the neighborhood of three or four hundred dollars that would be pretty good.