Proportion Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

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

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.