#proportion

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#american men #developing #epidemic #every #hiv

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#ancient times #been #consideration #divided #division

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

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#electoral #popular #proportion #require #votes

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#art #artist #every #form #formal

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#apply #direct #direct proportion #effort #proportion

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill. ↗

— David Keene

#bill #economic #error #grand #political

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

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult. ↗

— Emma Watson

#because #biggest #constantly #difficult #feel

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. ↗

— Chester Irving Barnard

#depends #derives #endurance #endure #governed