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Proportion Quotes
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food. - Joseph Hume Quotes
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. - William Bligh Quotes
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. - James Lovelock Quotes
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. - Orison Swett Marden Quotes
Worldly wealth is the Devils bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. - Robert Burton Quotes
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. - C Northcote Parkinson 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. - Nigel Short Quotes
Thank God I dont live in Los Angeles. I think if youre there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. - Sam Mendes Quotes
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. - Stendhal Quotes
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. - Thomas Merton Quotes
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. - Timothy Garton Ash Quotes
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. - Samuel Johnson Quotes
I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because its more fun for people to read about. Its even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder. - Sarah Chalke Quotes
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. - Daniel Webster Quotes
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. - George Washington Quotes
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 its a pigeon, which isnt really wild, which might come and settle near them. - David Attenborough Quotes
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. - Charles Babbage Quotes
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. - Charles Sturt Quotes
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. - Ernest Hemingway Quotes
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. - Armistead Maupin Quotes
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. - Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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. - Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. - Honore De Balzac Quotes
Ive had more people in my life take their lives than... I think its out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. - Paul Westerberg Quotes
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. - Marcel Proust Quotes
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. - C Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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. - Peter Cooper Quotes
Womans discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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