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The amount of missed attack rolls is inversely proportional to the importance of the battle.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about attack

The chances the elevator isn't work is inversely proportional to the weight you are carrying multiplied by the number of stairs you'll have to climb.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about chance, numbers, work, contentment

The squeakiness of floorboards is directly proportional to the need to remain unnoticed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about need

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 contentment, time

Good luck is inversely proportional to good timing.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about good luck, bad luck, good

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

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

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

Our education becomes complete in proportion as our susceptibility to these impressions increases in depth and variety.

Quote by Walter Pater about education

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

Quote by James Cash Penney about value, real estate

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Quote by Stendhal about love

A straight line is so right as far as the Earth. For this reason, unless you want to go straight into space, you have to respect the proportions Earth and accept compromise with the reality in which we live.

Quote by Marius Torok about rightness, earth, univers, reality, reason, respect, contentment

An average balanced proportion of exterior beauty promises more happiness than the physical perfection. Too much physical beauty can produce confusion and induce to the underestimation the cognitive, spiritual and emotional abilities of a person.

Quote by Mag. Cornelia Klappacher about beauty, confusion, ability, perfection, happiness, people

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.

GQuote by Gertrude S. Wister about flowers