#portion

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway. ↗

— Howard Carter

#doorway #down #expose #had #large

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#bbc #family #i #inflated #instrumental

They just neglected a large portion of the front row. ↗

— Gary Cooper

#just #large #large portion #neglected #portion

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

#acts #boast #events #far #history

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#dreamer #dreaming #his #must #only

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#direct proportion #distance #idealism #increases #problem

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#proportion #realised #sense

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#ass #audience #backward #cast #dance

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake. ↗

— Walter Lang

#direct #holy #holy spirit #miraculous #mistake

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#away #awe #back #been #being