Proportian Quotes & Sayings

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.] — John Charles Polanyi

Poverty is the mother of crime. - MARCUS AURELIUS — Marion Chesney

They love me like a pack of wolves.


Ernest — Paula McLain

if you already have genes predisposed to an autoimmune disease, and you eat grains and legumes, you're putting your hand on a trigger, and it's only a matter of time before you pull it and allow the damaged genes to rule. — Nicole Swenson

I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results. — Vladimir Putin

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life. — Paz Vega

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. — Steven Pinker

The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset. — Steve Young

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt — Maxim Gorky

He conducted interviews with nearly a hundred USDA poultry inspectors from thirty-seven plants. "Every week," he reports, "millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by harmful bacteria, or marred by lung and heart infections, cancerous tumors, or skin conditions are shipped for sale to consumers." Next — Jonathan Safran Foer

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact, for so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportian suspect, pity; and still fewer know that happiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize; the true beloveds of this world are in their lovers's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favourite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. — Truman Capote

As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead. — Penn Jillette