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She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions. — Kelley Armstrong

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. — Madeleine Albright

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. — Corrie Ten Boom

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ... making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner

Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions. — A.H. Septimius

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions. — Tony Porter

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. — D.H. Lawrence

Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions. — Gertrude Atherton

Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive. — Abraham H. Maslow

(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions ... — Benedict Fitzgerald

The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions. — Pliny The Younger

Pretentious and over-active semicolons have reached epidemic proportions in the world of academe, where they are used to gloss over imprecise thought. — Lynne Truss

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Vitruvius

Authority, reason, experience; on these three, mixed in varying proportions all our knowledge depends. — C.S. Lewis

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect. — Carolina Herrera

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home. — Nigel Lythgoe

resembling a stylized lotus. Inside the circle, in proportions — Krishna Udayasankar

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another. — Christian Louboutin

I am big and I am strong and I am powerful- a girl of Everest proportions who won't easily be conquered.' - ppg 26 — Annabel Pitcher

A mind stretched by a new idea
never shrinks back to its original proportions.
~ — Oliver Wendell Holmes

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. — Philip Emeagwali

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions. — Charlton Heston

The goatee was a neutral - unless you assessed it on style. In which case the fucker was a travesty of Rogaine proportions. — J.R. Ward

Did you know that if Barbie was a real woman with those proportions, she'd have to carry her kidneys in her purse? — Lani Diane Rich

Hatred and food were served up in equal proportions at the Connor dining table as he was growing up. — Bill Ward

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. — Mel Gibson

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. — Mark Twain

The Ark of the Covenant is a Golden Rectangle because its rectangular shape is in the proportions of the Golden Ratio. — Donald Frazer

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. — Philip Treacy

The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions. — Masaru Emoto

The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid — Bonnie Gaunt

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions. — Libba Bray

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior

It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself. — Winston S. Churchill

It was the wrong place at the wrong time kind of shit that had quickly turned into a catastrophe of epic proportions — Madeline Sheehan

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

But life is made of happiness and tragedy in equal proportions, and we will never change that. — Jennifer Worth

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill. — David Keene

A young man of godlilke proportions* was standing in the doorway.
* The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously. — Terry Pratchett

How can the world end in a giant fury of biblical proportions yet still leave room for embarrassment? — Susan Ee

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. — Grace Slick

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. — Gerhard Richter

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change. — Monica Raymund

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel

This is what my high school life had become - a horror show of epic, mind-fuck proportions. — G.G. Silverman

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. — Henry Kissinger

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. — Craig Brown

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse — George Crumb

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb. — Pablo Neruda

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. — Stieg Larsson

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor. — RuPaul

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions? — Ricci-Jane Adams

She'd better be okay. Otherwise the world was going to see a bloodbath of epic proportions in the organized game world. — Nancy Haviland

A travesty of epic proportions," Tock agreed. "How much you wanna bet they couldn't even turn the computer on? — T.J. Klune

The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In an economy that is overleveraged to historic proportions, economic stimuli will not do the trick. — Kenneth Eade

It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy — Albert Einstein

The primary factor is proportions. — Arne Jacobsen

To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne — Maryrose Wood

My level of excitement is above cricket proportions — C.S. Woolley

Fear is a funny thing. In the right light, even tiny and insignificant fears can suddenly grow, swelling up to monstrous proportions. — Jim Butcher

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another. — George Herbert

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. — Samuel Johnson

Our insecurities cause us to retaliate in outrageously greater proportions to whatever it was that came at us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions. — Cora Carmack

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions — Alice Sebold

The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions ... Ligeia — Edgar Allan Poe

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. — Theodor Schwenk

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. — Zaha Hadid

Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia. — Fritz Haber

Be afraid in proportion to the threat. — Dean Koontz

The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance! — Avijeet Das

Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions. — Olivia Palermo

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

Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it. — Dane Cook

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions. — Mark Twain

make sure knowledge flowing in proportions, underflow is pathetic, overflow is even more! — Rajesh Pandey

Can a need for sanity reach insane proportions? — Michael R. Fletcher

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place. — Henry Fielding

I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions. — Hedi Slimane

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy. — Albert Einstein

Jumping in the hot tub with this woman had been a decision of epically stupid proportions. — Abby Niles

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy