#portion

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#about #changes #direct #direct proportion #honest

Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us. ↗

— Mike May

#break #clear #ethanol #fuel #fuels

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent. ↗

— Theresa May

#i #proportionate #regime #transparent #want

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#bit #effort #itself #little #little bit

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#age #american #american women #disability #disproportionately

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#been #chief #chief danger #contained #courage

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#actions #happiness #intended #pain #pleasure

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ↗

— Bryan Miller

#between #direct #direct proportion #disparity #mill

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#ethnic #ethnic groups #groups #injured #job