#portion

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome. ↗

— Robert Casey

#am #because #certain #democratic #disproportionate

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#liberating #long #out #proportion #scale

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#exclude #fail #how #i #justify

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#because #blown #control #difference #first

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#film #friends #made #number #person

The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#chips #could #elvis #hear #portion

Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#everything #fun #gone #group #into

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#challenge #collect #dependent #disproportionately #end