#portion

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#draws #himself #hindered #man #outward

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#crime #itself #out #proportion #should

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#amount #been #body #disproportionate #done

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. ↗

— Jil Sander

#apparent #certain #cultural #dated #designer

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#bring #each #end #firmly #held

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#how #i #i am #obsessed #perceived

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle. ↗

— Lee Scott

#disproportionate #error #going #harm #made

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#good #jobs #nationals #occupations #proportion

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birth #breakdown #children #driving #family

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#burdens #carrying #declaration #equal #equal rights