#portion

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#deepest #god #his #impossible #incredible

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

— Thomas a Kempis

#draws #himself #hindered #man #outward

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

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 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

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#best #care #children #disease #disproportionately

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation. ↗

— James Sinegal

#i #i think #most #motivated #motivation

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections

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