Proportion Quotes

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

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 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.

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.

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.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

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

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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.

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.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

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

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

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

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.

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

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.