Proportion Quotes - page 18

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. (Andrew Greeley)
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key. View quote
Alain Ducasse
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion. View quote
Bruce Oldfield
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. View quote
Charles Sturt
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. View quote
D. B. Weiss
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. View quote
Dorothy Fields
The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion. View quote
Gillian Jacobs
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision. View quote
George Edward Woodberry
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise
I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work. View quote
Jane Asher
People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked. (John Anderson)
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. View quote
John P. Marquand
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. View quote
Josiah Strong
We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give. View quote
James Cash Penney
I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself. View quote
Kajol
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived. View quote
L'Wren Scott
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film. View quote
Francis Alys
Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans. View quote
Ian Goldin
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. View quote
John Hunter
One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert. (Owen Paterson)
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. View quote
Peter Cooper
I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately. View quote
Prabal Gurung
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. View quote
Pauline Marois
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead. View quote
Richard Schiff