Proportion Quotes

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.