Proportion Quotes

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

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

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.