#portion

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#equal #hesitation #increases #proportion #relation

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#first #globe #international #international law #just

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#get #groups #intelligence #into #inverse

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#air #body #cheering #communication #cut

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. ↗

— James Dean

#disproportion #fault #i #i think #kids

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

#exclude #fail #how #i #justify

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#ballpark #discovered #game #i #inverse

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#boils #book #connections #day #down

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#film #friends #made #number #person