#proportion

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#difference #disaster #failure #fiasco #mythic

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. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#concerned #country #deeply #diminution #disproportionately

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#changes #direct #direct proportion #dissatisfaction #never

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#comforting #disproportion #only #reflect #seems

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#around #blanket #comes #i #me

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. ↗

— Max Weber

#feeling #passion #politician #proportion #qualities

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size. ↗

— Fay Wray

#empire #empire state #high #his #king

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#brethren #children #difficulty #foster #greatness

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts