#proportion

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#just #least #observed #proportion #sense

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. ↗

— Douglas Engelbart

#directly proportional #embarrassment #mature #person #proportional

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority. ↗

— William H. Seward

#add #claim #disproportionate #majority #minority

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#degree #good #ground #like #love

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#direct #direct proportion #evidence #industrialization #industry

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 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